Regina Spektor, Folding Chair (live), San Francisco, March 5, 2023 (4K)

Regina Spektor plays her song "Folding Chair" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California on March 5, 2023. Folding Chair appeared on Spektor's fifth studio album, Far (2009). Regina Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and classically-trained pianist who grew up in Moscow and New York City. This was the fourth night of Spektor's Feeling Better Spring Solo Piano Tour, which had to be rescheduled from the fall after her bout with Covid.

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Feeling Better Spring Solo Tour live dates:

March 1 - Ithaca, NY @ State Theater
March 2 - Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall
March 3 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater
March 5 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
March 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
March 8 - San Diego, CA @ The Magnolia
March 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
March 13 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
March 15 - Washington DC @ Warner Theater
March 16 - Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater
March 18 - Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theater

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Folding Chair lyrics:

Come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze
There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes
And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies

Let's get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy
I'll safety pin his clothes all cool and you'll graffiti up his toys
I've got a perfect body, though sometimes I forget
I've got a perfect body cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
Yes, they do, they do

Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh ooh
Oo-oo-oo-ooh oo-ooh
Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh ooh
Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh

Now I've been sitting on this abandoned beach for years
Waiting for the salty water to cover up my ears
But every time the tide come in to take me home
I get scared, and I'm sitting here alone
Dreaming of the dolphin song

Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh ooh
Oo-oo-oo-ooh oo-ooh
Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh ooh
Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh

Maybe one day you will understand
I don't want nothing from you but to sweetly hold your hand
Till that day just please don't be so down
Don't make frowns, you silly clown

Just come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze
There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes
And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies

There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes
There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes, eyes

Written by Regina Ilyinichna Spektor

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Regina Spektor official bio:

Born in the Soviet Union, Regina Spektor (Регина Спектор) began studying classical piano when she was six. Her family emigrated in 1989, landing in New York City, where she continued her classical training. Spektor eventually studied composition at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College where she graduated with honors. She began writing pop songs in her late teens and made her recorded debut in 2001 with the self-released 11:11, a collection of songs heavily influenced by jazz and blues. Songs followed in 2002 and Soviet Kitsch in 2004. Spektor’s commercial breakthrough came in 2006 on her fourth LP, Begin to Hope. The gold-certified album included the singles “On the Radio,” “Better” and “Fidelity,” which climbed the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Spektor’s fifth album, Far released in 2009, and sixth album, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats released in 2012, both debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Spektor’s songs have appeared in TV shows and movies including Orange Is The New Black, Grey’s Anatomy, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother, Veronica Mars, The Good Wife and (500) Days of Summer. Spektor played for the Obamas and guests at the White House and performed as part of philanthropic campaigns for Tibet, Doctors Without Borders, and many more. Her most recent tours included her first concerts in her native Russia plus sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, The Royal Albert Hall in London and two nights at Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Spektor’s most recent album, her seventh, is entitled Remember Us To Life. The album has received extensive critical praise. Rolling Stone declared that Remember Us To Life wraps underdog storytelling in brilliant songcraft” and Esquire described Regina as “our generation’s Joni Mitchell” adding that “[Spektor] has long made a habit of spinning fictional, winding tales into songs that utilize humor and absurdity for the purpose of pointed social commentary. Her new LP is no different.”

























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Typo catcher: Regina Spector, Regena Specktor, Ragina Specter, Folded Chair

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