Sellers Of Flowers chords by Regina Spektor

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
   B minorBm
The sellers of flowers
 G+G
Buy up old roses
   FF
They pull off dead petals
   A minorAm
Like old heads of lettuce
   E minorEm
And sell ’em as new ones
   G+G
For cheaper and fairer
     D MajorD
But they die by the morning
   FF
So who is the winner?

Chorus:
 Bb majorBb
Not the roses
 DmDm
Not the buyers
 A augmentedA
Not the sellers

Maybe winter


Verse 2:
   B minorBm
Cause winter is coming
 G+G
Soon after summer
  FF
It runs faster, faster
 A minorAm
Chasing off Autumn
  E minorEm          G+G
We go from a warm sun to only a white sun
  D MajorD           FF
We go from a large sun to only a small one


Verse 3:
  B minorBm           G+G
When I was a small girl I walked through the market
  FF          A minorAm
Holding my dad’s hand, mitten in gloved hand
  E minorEm             G+G
At night there were roses lit up in glass boxes
  D MajorD                 FF
The heat-lamps would keep them from freezing in winter

Verse 4:
 Bb majorBb             DmDm
We never bought them but somebody must have
 A augmentedA           A7A7
Maybe they made it or maybe they froze up
 Bb majorBb
Before any person had put them in water
 A augmentedA
And hoped that they’d still be alive by the morning


Chorus:
 Bb majorBb
Who’s the winner?
 DmDm
Not the roses
 A augmentedA
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
 Bb majorBb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
 A augmentedA
Not the fathers

Not their children

Bb majorBb
Not those waking
 A#(b5)
On a dark night
 A augmentedA
Through a memory

They’re forgetting
 Eb MajorEb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
 A augmentedA
Maybe winter, maybe winter


Verse 5:
 B minorBm         D MajorD        F# minorF#m
Somebody steps on a light through a tunnel
 B minorBm                D MajorD      F# minorF#m
They’re holding a piece of their mind in the rubble
FaugFaug F# minorF#m A augmentedA D MajorD   A augmentedA  D MajorD
Hold on I won’t let go
B minorBm A augmentedA   G+G
I want to know


Instrumentation:


Verse 6:
  B minorBm
But no one lives long enough
 G+G
To see the outcome
  FF
To know any answers
  A minorAm
To know what the point is
  E minorEm
To know if the winter
 G+G
Ever came closer
 D MajorD
Than on that night
     FF
When I walked with my father


Verse 7:
  Bb majorBb
A augmentedA small piece of ice
  DmDm
Lodged in my mind
  A augmentedA
Lodged in my thoughts, lodged in my eyes
 G minorGm
Cold all around, cold all around
 A augmentedA
Warm from inside, warm from inside


Chorus:
 Bb majorBb
Who’s the winner?
 DmDm
Not the roses
 A augmentedA
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
 Bb majorBb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
 A augmentedA
Not the fathers

Not their children

 Bb majorBb
Who’s the winner?
 DmDm
Not the roses
 A augmentedA
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
 Bb majorBb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
 A augmentedA
Not the fathers

Not their children


Outro:
Bb majorBb
Not those waking
 A#(b5)
On a dark night
 A augmentedA
Through a memory

They’re forgetting
 Eb MajorEb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
 A augmentedA
Maybe winter, maybe winter
 Eb MajorEb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
 A augmentedA
Maybe winter, maybe winter
 Eb MajorEb                 A augmentedA G minorGm EdimEdim  DmDm