"Laughing With"
Single by Regina Spektor
from the album Far
B-side	"Blue Lips"
Released	May 18, 2009
Genre	Antifolk
Length	3:14
Label	Sire Records
Songwriter(s)	Regina Spektor
Producer(s)	Jacknife Lee
Regina Spektor singles chronology
"Better" (2007) "Laughing With" (2009) "Eet" (2009)
Music video
"Laughing With" on YouTube

"Laughing With" is a song from Regina Spektor's fifth studio album, Far. It was released as the album's lead single on Regina's MySpace on May 8, 2009, and was officially released as a digital download on May 18 in various parts of Europe and in the United States and Canada on May 19.

Spektor arranged strings for this song, "but instead of a traditional quartet we had two cellos. I'm drawn to that, the lower sounds - bass, cello, tuba, that warm bottomy sound."^[1]

A physical EP was released in the U.S. on June 9, 2009.^[2] Apart from "Laughing With", it contains the songs Folding Chair, from Spektor's upcoming album; "The Call", which was featured in the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian; and a live performance of "The Noise" from the Live at Bull Moose EP.

It was used in an episode of The Leftovers, season 2, episode 5: "No Room at the Inn".

Track listing

Music video

A music video directed by Adria Petty was released on May 26, 2009.

Charts

The song has reached #14 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales. In Belgium the song has thus far peaked at #34 on the Singles Chart.

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