Regina Spektor Covers Radiohead's "No Surprises"

Spektor put this awesome cover on her website a few days ago. And let me tell you, it's awesome. Did I mention how awesome it is?

Regina is selling the song on iTunes and the proceeds will go to the Doctors Without Borders Emergency Relief Fund for recently earthquake-stricken Chile and Haiti.

The song is fitting, especially for Haiti, whose government and economy are among the most volatile in the world.

Yorke writes and Regina sings, "A heart that's full up like a landfill/A job that slowly kills you . . . Bring down the government, they don't speak for us." Words any poor Haitian citizen with a shabbily constructed house and an even worse income could say. "I'll take the quiet life/A handshake, some carbon monoxide/No alarms and no surprises."

It's actually haunting to listen to or read these lyrics with Haiti or Chile in mind, and I'd say that's the desired effect.

So you could buy the song on iTunes to do your part (and get a really awesome cover).

And you can listen to the original Radiohead version here.