Like many of Regina Spektor's songs, it tells a story filled with unusual details and sounds.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Tom Waits is a singer/songwriter whose voice sounds like a truck crossing over hundreds of stones.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

So the city is also called something that sounds like Las Vegas C Lost Wages.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Because it's another thing that sounds like on the surface is a great idea."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The shapes look like clouds. Listen now to sounds from a clouded leopard.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

What he is writing sounds like it was written by a lawyer.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In scat,the singer's voice sounds like another instrument in the orchestra.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

It sounds like precede but it means prevent.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

I mean, he got to me so fast.He was nowhere near me. Sounds like you were very lucky.

VOA: standard.other

They came back and said, 'Sure,that sounds like a good idea, but could you train a monk to bake while you are here?'

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

He says the new Obama war strategy, which also includes a major rehaul of civilian development projects, sounds like a hopeful change from the past.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Yeah, that sounds like me. Oh, honey, I'm so sorry.

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