Regina Spektor

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2 99 Cent Blues

Bb Eb F F7(or Fm Bb7

But in the furthest place I've ever known Where even I so rarely roam There lives a boy who just come back from war His flesh was wounded but he made it back home

All The Rowboats

Abm Fm Cm Gm

All the rowboats in the paintings They keep trying to row away And the captains ' worried faces Stay contorted and staring at the waves

Another Town

G C Ab B D

In another town Don't let me forget In another town Mouths full of regrets In another town

Après Moi

A F Gm Dm Bb Bm

I must go on standing You can't break that which isn't yours I, oh, must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Aquarius

D G Gm F# Bm Em7

Dear someone listening in the shadows, I only talk to you sometimes And though I ask for help in riddles, it is Clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind

Baby Jesus

C F C7 G E Fm

Regina Spektor - Baby Jesus [Verse 1] You know that statue, that statue of baby jesus

Back Of A Truck

C G Am D

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She lifted the monument in her monumental arms She was the mother superior with her carry-on luggage charms She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door She had eaten her dog and she was back for more

Ballad Of A Politician

Cm Ab Bb G Eb Fm

[Intro] A man inside a room is shaking hands with other men This is how it happens Our carefully laid plans

Baobabs

Db Ab Bbm7 C F Ebm7

[Chorus] You have tamed me Now you must take me How am I supposed to be I don't have my thorns now

Bartender

Bb F Eb Gm Ab C7

[Verse 1] Come on bartender Won't you be more tender Give me two shots of whiskey And a beer chaser

Be Like A Cloud

G F# C Em D A

[Verse 1] Who said I was original? Who said I was allowed To sing as if I really sing, to write as if I really write? Who said that I could suddenly get up from underneath?

Becoming All Alone

Ab Eb Cm Fm Bb G

Verse 1: I went walking home alone Past all the bars and corner delis When I heard God call out my name

Better

A B E Em

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If I kiss you where it's sore If I kiss you where it's sore Will you feel better, better, better Will you feel anything at all Will you feel better, better, better

Birdsong

G F Bb E C D

[Verse] Out of the quiet Out of the sunrise I hear the birdsong Give way to sirens

Black And White

C G F Dm

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When you left I closed the door Closed my eyes Sat on the floor Heart beat fast

Bleeding Heart

C Dm Am F G

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What you got on top, I'll take two of that I'm chasing a story I heard When I was here last, at the back of the class You pretended you never got lost You're at the back of the class, in the back of the bus

Blue Lips

Dm F Bb C Em G

He stumbled into faith and thought, God, this is all there is? The pictures in his mind arose And began to breathe And all the gods in all the worlds

Bobbing For Apples

A2 D2 A5 B2 C#2 C2

Swander found the chords, so i'm not taking credit. they are weird, so i'll use his key And i'll just put them with the lyrics. Verse:

Braille

Eb/G Ab C# Fm7 Ab/F F#

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks She hadn't been a virgin and he hadn't been a god So she names the baby Elvis To make up for the royalty he lacked And from then on it was turpentine and patches

Buildings

A D E F#m

He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties He was a husband who drove his wife home And in the car he would gently lean her head on the side door window And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope, saying:

The Calculation

F C Dm Am G Bb

Got yourself another hour And you gave Half of it to me We sat there looking at the faces

The Call

D G Em C D7

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It started out as a feeling Which then grew into a hope Which then turned into a quiet thought Which then turned into a quiet word And then that word grew louder and louder

Call Them Brothers

C B7 G Em B E

That's it, it's split - it won't recover Just frame the halves and call them brothers Find their fathers and their mothers If you remember who they are

The Call (ver. 2)

F Bb Gm Eb F/A Ab

It started out as a feeling, Which then grew into a hope, Which then turned into a quiet thought, Which then turned into a quiet word, And then that word grew louder and louder

Carbon Monoxide

A C F

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Car-bon mono-xide Soon i'll go-o-oh to slee-e-e-eep If I don’t got my socks on right They slide right off off my feet Bflatmaj F

Chemo Limo

Db Fm Bbm Bbm7 Ab7 Gb9

I had a dream- crispy, crispy Ben-jamin Franklin Came o-ver and baby-sat all four of my kids Then in my dream, I told the doctor off He said, ?If you don?t want to do it, then you don?t have to do it? He said ?The truth is, you?ll be okay anyway?

Coin

A E G# G#m F# F#6/9

[Verse 1] I gave a coin to a shaman A E F#add9 He showed me a vision so bri- ight I was so glad to have seen it all

Consequence Of Sounds

C# G# D#m F#

My words don’t travel far, They tangle in my hair, And tend to go nowhere, They grow right back inside, Right past my brain and eyes

Dance Anthem Of The 80S

C# F# G# B F

[Verse] You are so sweet Dancing to that beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and the girls watch each other eat

Daniel Cowman

G Bm D E Bb Bb7

Esus On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing The world should've ended right then and there At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing The world should've ended, how could it go on, how could it go on when

Dear Theodosia

G A D F#m Bm

[Verse] Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? You have my eyes. You have your mother's name When you came into the world, you cried and it broke my heart I'm dedicating every day to you

December

Am Fmaj7 G C E G4

[Verse 1] December starts on Sunday Next Sunday, won't you feel happier then? Turn your room upside down Turn your down upside

Dog And Pony

C F G Am Em Dm

[Verse] Dog and pony Empty file cabinet You never forget You never come back the same

Dog And Pony Ukulele

Bb F Eb Gm

Dog and pony Empty file cabinet You never forget You never come back the same Each time you go up in flames

Dont Leave Me

C F G

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Down on Bowery they lose their ball-eyes and their lipped mouths in the night And stumbling through the street they say Sir do you got a light and If you do then you're my friend and If you don't then you're my foe and If you are a deity of any sort then please don't go

Dont Leave Me Ne Me Quitte Pas

A D E

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[Verse 1] Down on Bowery they lose their ball-eyes and their lip-mouths in the night And stumbling through the street, they say: "Sir, do you got a light?" And if you do, then you're my friend, and if you don't, then you're my foe And if you are a deity of any sort, then please don't go

Dust To Dust

F C D Am

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Verse 1 Say goodbye Love again, love again But I Don't want to want to want to want to

Edit

G# C

You don't have no doctor Robert Cadd13 G# You don't have no uncle Albert You don't even have good credit Cadd13 G#

Eet

Gb Dbmaj7 Bb Db5 C Ab

[Verse 1] Bbmadd11 Absus4 Dbadd9 Gb It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song. Bbmadd11 Absus4/C Dbadd9 Gb5 You can't believe it; you were always singing along.

End Of Thought

G Am C F B Em

[Verse 1] I thought about what you said And it's the end of the thought that really got in my head (Be careful before you decide) (Be careful before you decide)

Fidelity

C F Bb Dm Dm/C G

I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds I hear in my mind all these voices

Field Below

G C D D/C Am D/B

I wish I'd see a field below I wish I'd hear a rooster crow But there are none who live downtown And so the day starts out so slow Again the sun was never called

Firewood

C F Dm G C7 Fm

The piano is not firewood yet They try to remember but still they forget That the heart beats in threes Just like a waltz And nothing can stop you from dancing

The Floor Heard Everything

F Bb C Cm

[Verse 1] Father, father, father, father Father, father, father, father Yes Father, father, father, father

The Flowers

Ab Gm C F Fm Bbm

[Verse 1] The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away. Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully. They might so I'm waiting and staying awake.

Folding Chair

G F C Am

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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

Genius Next Door

Bm G# Fm Eb Gsus F

Some said the local lake had been enchanted Others said it must have been the weather The neighbors were trying to keep it quiet But I swear I could hear the laughter So they jokingly nicknamed it the porridge

Ghost Of Corporate Future

F C G

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A man walks out of his apartment It is raining, he's got no umbrella He starts running beneath the awnings Trying to save his suit Tryin to dryin to tryin to dry but no good

Grand Hotel

C F G A Am

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[Verse 1] Somewhere below the grand hotel There is a tunnel that leads down to hell Take the dumbwaiter, the laundry chute Then sneak through the hall past the boy's shining boots

Hero

G Am C F

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Power to the people We don't want it We want pleasure And the T.V.s try to rape us And I guess that they're succeeding

Hotel Song

G D C Em Am

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[Chorus] I have dreams of orca whales and owls But I wake up in fear You will never be my You will never be my fool

How

Eb Ab Bb Cm

How can I forget your love? How can I never see you again? There's a time and place For one more sweet embrace And is time, ooh

Human Of The Year

Em G C D B7 Am

Hello, hello? Calling a Karl Projectorinski to the front Of the Cathedral you have won, dear sir May I congratulate you first? Oh, what an honour

I Cut Off My Hair

C D F G A

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[Chorus] I cut off my hair and went to sleep You were there, in my dreams Nursing on a glass teat It was a party, you were sucking liquor

Ink Stains

E Am F Am7 Dm E7

All the Holocaust deniers To a bathhouse warm and quiet Ddim Complementary soap, complementary haircut And gas 'em up until they know that

Jessica

G C C/B Am F

Jessica wake up Jessica wake up It's February again we must get older So wake up

Just Like The Movies

Eb B A C# E D

....Just Like The Movies.... The Beautiful

Lacrimosa

A Dm Bb F6 Dm6 C

[Verse] We keep on bury- ing our dead We keep on planting their bones in the ground But they won't grow The sun doesn't help

Lady

Cm Fm G G# C Bb

Lady sing the blues so well As if she mean it As if it's hell down here In the smoke-filled world Where the jokes are cold

Laughing With

Eb Fm Ab Bbm Db Cm

[Verse] No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one’s laughing at God When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor

The Light

G C Am D Em B

[Verse 1] The light was shining in my eyes before I closed them And all the dreams I had the night before came back The faces that I'd seen looked so familiar But they're just strangers - I haven't met them yet

Lounge

Bm G C F D#m A#m

I don't care that flowers grow for you, And me, and me You don't know what love is till you see, Her standing there A web of skin and nails and hair

Love Affair

F#m E# C D Bm7 C#7

[Verse] There was a love affair in this building The kind of love affair That every respectable building must keep as a legend Slowly festering through an innocent "By the way,

Love Youre A Whore

G C D

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Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day The day I didn't love you anymore Some little cue wound up my poor heart which had stopped As I walked to the grocery store

Loveology

C F G C5 Am Em

Oh, an incurable humanist you are Oh, an incurable humanist you...are You are, you are-are, you are, you... Oh, an incurable humanist you are Oh, an incurable humanist,

Lucky Penny

A D E F G

[Verse 1] I didn't find The lucky penny So I flipped it Over

Lullaby

F Am C

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Intro: I know that you cannot be here I know that you are not mine now

Machine

E F Am

My eyes are bifocal My hands are sub jointed I live in the future In my prewar apartment And I count all my blessings

Man Of A Thousand Faces

Bb Dm Gm F C

A man of a thousand faces Sits down at the table Eats a small lump of sugar And smiles at the moon like he knows her And begins his quiet ascension

Mermaid

C F G Am B

I am a mermaid But I've sold my voice For a couple of feet That always bleed When I go walking in the road

Musicbox

A E F

And sing another melody completely So different than the ones they're always singin' I close my eyes and think that I have found me, But then I feel mortality surround me I want to sing another melody

My Dear Acquaintance

A E D F#m C#m C#7

My dear acquaintance, it's so good to know you For strength of your hand That is loving and giving And a happy new year with love overflowing With joy in our hearts

My Man

Ebm Db Gb Bb B F

[Verse 1] It cost me a lot but there's one thing that I've got -- it's my man Cold and wet, tired, you bet but all that I'll soon forget with my man He's not much on looks and no hero out of books it's my man Two or three girls has he that he likes as well as me but I love him

Ne Me Quitte Pas

A E D

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Down in Bowery They lose their ballads and their lipped-mouths in the night And stumbling through the street, they say "Sir, do you got a light? And if you do then you're my friend

New Year

Db Gb Bbm Ab Db7 Ab7

Verse 1 She sets her alarm Five minutes to midnight And wakes just in time To greet the new year

No Surprises

C Fm G Dm F E

[Verse 1] A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you Bruises that won't heal You look so tired and unhappy

The Noise

F C G C7 Dm7 G7

All the power of my voice can't compare To the power of a quiet whisper Still it's a choice and I choose to rage Instead of ever quietly listening

Obsolete

Db Gb Ab Eb Bbm F

[Intro] This is how I feel right now Obsolete manuscript No one reads and no one needs Pages lost, incomplete

Ode To Divorce

C F Bb Cm Eb

Is suddenly tasteless I know I'm alone now I know what it tastes like Fsus2 So break me to small parts

Oedipus

A Bm5 A5 Dm7 Bm7 Em7

Regina Spektor - legend. Surprised at lack of tabs for this, so thought I'd do one myself. Then I realised this song does not transcribe well for guitar. Chords used:

Ohmerica

F Db Bbm Ab F# Bb

Regina Spektor - Ohmerica (Tabbed on 1/3/07 by Mike Long) Play Db as an 'F-shape' on the 9th fret, except during "there's nothing like (emptying a cartridge)"

Old Jacket Stariy Pedjak

Bm D Em A G F#m

Ya mnogo let pidzhak noshu. Davno potersya i ne nov on. I ya zovu k sebe portnogo I pereshit pidzhak proshu.

Older And Taller

G F C Am Dm B

I remembered you older and taller But you’re younger and smaller So who’s gonna call her and say That you’re back again

On The Radio

C G F Am A

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This is how it works It feels a little worse Than when we drove our hearse Right Through that screaming crowd While laughing up a storm

One Little Soldier

G F C D

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[Verse 1] Did you think you'd get to run the world forever? Little soldiers fighting loyal by your side That you’d get to play the role of grand commander Never questioning your motives or your pride

One Mans Prayer

Eb Gm D Bb Cm Ebmaj7

[Verse] I just want some girl to love me back Tell me I'm her only and take away the lonely This deep love in my heart can't go to waste 'Cause if I won't get to meet God,

One More Time With Feeling

C F Am E7 Dm D

Your stitches are all out But your scars are healing wrong The helium balloon inside your room has come undone And it's pushing up at the ceiling And the flickering lights it cannot get beyond

The One Who Stayed And The One Who Left

D A G Bm Gm E

Verse 1: He went to visit an old, old friend And it was long, long overdue And though they stayed up very late They never talked out of turn or tune

Open

Dm F Gm Dm/F Gm/E Bb

Down the road and up the hill I wait for you still Wires 'round my fingers Potentially lovely Perpetually human

The Party

G C Am F G7

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Youre like a party somebody threw me You taste like birthday You look like New Years Youre like a big parade through town You leave such a mess but youre so fun

Patron Saint

A E Dm D

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She's the kind of girl who'll smash herself down in the night She's the kind of girl who'll fracture her mind till it's light She'll break her own heart and you know

Pavlovs Daughter

C7 C#7 F C E Cm

[Chorus] My name is Lucille and I know how you feel I live downstairs I hear you taking out your garbage I hear you loving your girlfriend

Poor Little Rich Boy

D F G a C F#

And you think that you should but she thinks that she's fat But she isn't but you don't love her anyway And you don't love your mother And you know that you should

Pound Of Flesh

A Dm Bb F G Gm

Verse 1 If you're never sorry Then you can't be forgiven If you're not forgiven Then you can't be forgotten

The Prayer Of Franois Villon Molitva

Fm C Bbm Ab Fmmaj7 Eb

Poka zemlya yeshcho vertitsya, poka yeshcho yarok svet, Gospodi, day zhe ty kazhdomu chevo u nevo net. Umnomu day golovu, truslivomu day konya, Day schastlivomu deneg i ne zabud' pro menya.

Prisoners

Am E F E7 G# C

[Verse 1] All of the prisoners serving life sentences Wait for the earth to suddenly shake For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling and For the bars to somehow magically break

Raindrops

G C Am Dm Em F

You dont know but thats ok You might find me anyway Dont you know that i belong Arm in arm with you baby

Reading Time With Pickle

F7 Bb F C C7

Walking home from work Stop at the supermarket The condiment aisle A jar of pickles catches the eye Made eye contact with a solitary pickle -- ah!

Real Love

Ab E G# Db Eb Ab7

All my little plans and schemes Ebm6/Gb EbAug Lost like some forgotten dream Seems that all I really was doing Was waiting for you

Riot Gear

C G F Cm

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The night comes Time to go on the town And in my best Sashimi dress And marble arch supporting shoes

Rockland County

F Bb G C a E

[Verse] Condescending down the stairs I'm condescending down the stairs I look out

Sailor Song

G C F B# Fm

Regina Spektor - Sailor Song (Tabbed by Mike Long on 1/10/07) A little weird on the guitar. The strumming pattern is key. Play along and you'll get it. I kinda hinted to the counting

Samson

B E G#m F# C#m B/D#

You are my sweetest down-fall I loved you first, I loved you first Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth I have to go, I have to go Your hair was long, when we first met

Scarecrow And Fungus

C G F A E F#m

[Intro] Come on inside and I'll show you your brother He's got enough money to buy a new father He's got enough money to bother Somebody else

School Is Out

Gmaj7 D Dmaj7/C# D6/B D/A Bm/F#

School is out And I walk the empty hallways I walk alone Alone as always There's so many lucky pennies

Sellers Of Flowers

A Bb G F D Bm

[Verse 1] The sellers of flowers Buy up old roses They pull off dead petals Like old heads of lettuce

Small Bills

G G#

Verse 1 His destiny was just too big to spend So he broke it into smaller bills and change By the time he'd try to buy the things he needed He had spent it all on Lucy's and weed and

Small Town Moon

Bb C F Eb

I must've left a thousand times But every day begins the same 'Cause there's a small town in my mind How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me? How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me?

Somedays

C F9 Csus4/G Am7 F G/B

Some days aren?t yours at all They come and go as if they?re someone else?s days They come and leave you behind with someone else?s face And it?s harsher than yours And colder than yours

Stariy Pedjak

Am E7 G C

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"Iá mnoga liêt pidják naxú"

Stay

Ab Eb Bb Cm Fm G

[Verse 1] I'm walking home alone Past all the bars and the corner delis And I heard God call out my name

Sugarman

D G C B Bb G6

[Verse 1] Skies are blue when I'm with you They turn to grey when you're away I'm not your doll, I'm not your pet But I'm not my own ever since we met

Summer In The City

C G F

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[Chorus] Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage And I start to miss you, baby, sometimes I've been staying up and drinking in a late night establishment Telling strangers personal things

The Sword And The Pen

Cm Ab Fm G Cm7 Fm6

[Verse 1] Don't let me out of this kiss Ddim7 Cm/Eb Don't let me say what I say The things that scare us today

That Time

G#m E A C#m

[Verse 1] Hey remember that time when I found a human tooth down on Delancey Hey remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth Hey remember that time when my favorite colors was pink and green Hey remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangerines

Through A Door

D A F# C# F Em

[Verse 1] Heard a woman through a door Say that she hopes she goes first Couldn't listen anymore And my heart went out to her

Time Is All Around

C F G Em Am

Verse: You step on all my parts And then you walk right out the door And I know that your love ain't never coming back no more

Tornadoland

B F# G#m G E F#m6

[Verse 1] It's so much easier than you think, you try so hard And every time you get it wrong, you get it right You get it wrong but you get it right You get it right

The Trapper And The Furrier

Gm Bb C Bbmaj7 G

Leaving them open and easy to handle The trapper and the furrier went walking through paradise They took some for now and they got some for later And they marveled at the pelts, not a bullet hole in them And they filled up the cages with pets for their children

Two Birds

G Am C F7M D

Two birds on a wire One tries to fly away And the other Watches him close From that wire

Uh-Merica

E F C Am G

Mrs. E. Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun, la, la, la Mrs. E. Roosevelt didn't even know I owned one la, la, la Somewhere between the cobblestone floor And the slated wooden ceiling la, la, la Cuddling my semi-automatic, what a very fuzzy feeling la la la

Us

C F Am E Cmaj7 G

Verse They made a statue of us And it put it on a mountain top Now tourists come and stare at us Blow bubbles with their gum

The Visit

Ab Bbm Db Eb F Fm

[Verse] I'm so glad that you stopped in And I had some things to say But now they've been forgotten They'll get said a different day

Walking Away

Bb A Dm G Gm Gm9

[Verse 1] After all these years it's still the same After all this time not much to say I just keep walking away From this day

Wallet

C Bm G D A

I found a wallet, I found a wallet Inside were pictures of your small family You were so young, your hair dark brown You had been born in 1953

What Might Have Been

F C Am G

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[Verse 1] Sickness and flowers go together Bombing and shelters go together Laughing and hurting go together Finding and keeping go together

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Bm A F# G#m G D#m

[Verse 1] I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps

You

C F G Am c a

Hi! First tab. I'm a pianist and a self-taught guitarist so I don't know how to express Strumming patterns. Kind of like... down up down up down for the verses, then for Names dates, faces it is Single strum then move on. I'll never fall like that again is like a looser, more free version of the verse. Hope

Youve Got Time

Bbm Db Ebm Ab Gb Fm

The animals, the animals Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full The cage is full, Stay awake In the dark, count mistakes The light was off but now it's on