Crack In The Wall Suzanne Vega

A crack appeared inside a wall, A door sprang up around it. Each of these so finely drawn I could not believe I found it.

Marlene on the Wall Suzanne Vega

Even if I am in love with you All this to say, what\'s it to you?

As A Child Suzanne Vega

As a child You have a doll You see this doll Sitting in her chair You watch her face Her knees apart Her eyes of glass In a secretive stare She seems to She seems to She seems to Have

Headshots Suzanne Vega

The sign said "Headshots" And that was all, A picture of a boy And a number you could call, Two eyes in the shade A mouth so sad and small, It's strange the way a shadow Can fall across the wall

Priscilla Suzanne Vega

she'd come to my house and dance in the hall with the music up loud against the light on the wall I danced beside her feeling no shame we were in costume and this was a game she'd put on her skirt of layers

Bad Wisdom Suzanne Vega

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong Cause my body has strange information He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child But he doesn't dare ask the right question Mother my friends are

Birth-Day (Love Made Real) Suzanne Vega

one thing I know this pain will go step through all that's left to feel I wait to meet my love made real don't move don't touch don't talk so much strip and find the place to kneel I wait to meet my love

Song In Red And Grey Suzanne Vega

The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face made me wonder just how she could know of that something that happened between you and me so much more than a long time ago Her mother, I can see

Songs In Red and Gray Suzanne Vega

the reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face made me wonder just how she could know of that something that happened between you and me so much more than a long time ago her mother, I can see, lives

Songs In Red and Gray (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face made me wonder just how she could know of that something that happened between you and me so much more than a long time ago Her mother, I can see

In Liverpool Suzanne Vega

In Liverpool On Sunday No traffic On the avenue The light is pale and thin Like you No sound, down In this part of town Except for the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down

Book Of Dreams Suzanne Vega

In my book of dreams In my book of dreams In my book of dreams I took your urgent whisper Stole the arc of a white wing Rode like foam on the river of pity Turned its tide to strength Healed the

Rosemary Suzanne Vega

How the women selling rosemary pressed the branches to your chest, promised luck and all the rest, and put their fingers in your hair?

(If You Were) In My Movie Suzanne Vega

If you were in my movie I'd have you as the doctor Small black bag And a big black coat I'd have you make a house call To the woman You could lay your Diagnostic hand Upon her belly and her

Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands Suzanne Vega

he stood upon the last bastions of the place looked out on the ruins with thunder in his face an introverted spectacle in the flowers on the rocks the daisies on the ramparts blowing free his heart was

Left Of Center Suzanne Vega

If you want me You can find me Left of center Off of the strip In the fringes In the outskirts In the corner Out of the grip When they ask me "Nothing much" (not much) "What are you looking at?"

I Never Wear White Suzanne Vega

I never wear white White is for virgins Children in summer Brides in the park My color is black black black Black is for secrets Outlaws and dancers For the poet of the dark Black is the truth Of my situation

Edith Wharton`s Figurines Suzanne Vega

edith wharton's lovely figurines still speak to me today from their mantlepiece in time where they wrestle and they play with passions and with prudences finances and fears her face and what its

Edith Wharton’s Figurines Suzanne Vega

Edith Wharton's lovely figurines Still speak to me today From their mantelpiece in time Where they wrestle and they play With passions and with prudences Finances and fears Her face - what it's worth

Blood Makes Noise Suzanne Vega

I'd like to help you doctor Yes I really really would But the din in my head It's too much and it's no good I'm standing in a windy tunnel Shouting through the roar And I'd like to give the information

Night Vision Suzanne Vega

Half the world in sweetness By night beware The other in fear When the darkness takes you With her hand across your face Don't give in too quickly Find the thing she's erased Through the grain Find the

Language Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega If language were liquid Instead here we are It would be rushing in In a silence more eloquent Words are too solid Than any word could ever be They don't move fast enough To catch the blur

Freeze Tag (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

We go to the playground In the wintertime The sun is fading fast Upon the slides into the past Upon the swings of indecision In the wintertime

Fat Man & Dancing Girl Suzanne Vega

I stand in a wide flat land No shadow or shade of a doubt Whore the megaphone man Met the girl with her hand that's Covering most of her mouth Fall in love with a bright idea And the way a world

Angel’s Doorway Suzanne Vega

Angel comes home His clothes in a cloud Of the dust and the dirt and destruction She waits inside She knows he's arrived She feels this with no introduction [Chorus:] At angel's door You have to leave

Honeymoon Suite Suzanne Vega

the ceiling had a painting on it in our room in France so we were living underneath some angels in a dance and so we went to bed my husband was not feeling well he woke up complaining of an aching in his

Straight Lines (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

There's a sound Across the alley Touching skin Of cold metalAnd you can see That she has gone and cut If you look in her window Her hair again In straight lines Straight lines Those soft golden lights

Frank & Ava Suzanne Vega

On the way to the bidet is when the trouble used to start It didn't mean she wasn't queen of the tinderbox that was his heart Her fire, his desire meant that everything must come undone And, so, now we

Zephyr & I Suzanne Vega

Zephyr and I stand out on West End Avenue Talking about the things that All of us used to do And the wind kicks up with the smell of rain The kids are gone but the souls remain Zephyr and I sort out our

Small Blue Thing Suzanne Vega

stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am throwm aginst the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light scattering like light scattering like light Today i am a small blue thing

Soap And Water Suzanne Vega

Soap and water take the day from my hand scrub the salt from my stinging skin slip me loose of this wedding band Soap and water hang my heart on the line scour it down in a wind of sand bleach it clean

It Makes Me Wonder Suzanne Vega

The virgin mary on a chain Has hit me in the mouth again As we explore the carnal score Of sacred and profane Sulky boy won't drink his milk Mothers breast beneath the silk Remains untouched it's way too

Undertow (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

now if I could I would swallow you whole I would leave only bones and teeth We could see what was underneath And you would be free then Once I thought only tears could make us free Like sand against the

As You Are Now Suzanne Vega

I will take up all your tears Salty tissues through the years Spread them in the sun to dry Diamonds from each time you cry I will treasure all your teeth Your laughter and the pearls beneath Keep them

Ironbound / Fancy Poultry Suzanne Vega

Ironbound / Fancy Poultry In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut through the sky The beams

Harbor Song Suzanne Vega

I dreamed you were a rich man and that I had no place to go I came to you to see if you would take me in through golden curtains you told me you'd let me know.

Harbor Song (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

I dreamed you were a rich man and that I had no place to go I came to you to see if you would take me in through golden curtains you told me you'd let me know.

Rock In This Pocket Suzanne Vega

Excuse me If I may Turn your attention My way One moment I won't plead It isn't much It's what I need And what's so small to you Is so large to me If it's the last thing I do I'll make you

Some Journey Suzanne Vega

Would I have dressed in smoke and fire For you to see through?

Solitude Standing Suzanne Vega

<Solitude Standing> Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon And she turns

Private Goes Public Suzanne Vega

Smile no smile Jerk like a thing on a string And go join the parade On this face today It won't help to win friends Influence strangers Code will keep your privacy in Or otherwise be in the swim Mask will

Gypsy (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffee shops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where we recognized the sign We strangers know each

Gypsy Suzanne Vega

You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where we recognized the sign We strangers know each

Laying On Of Hands/Stoic 2 Suzanne Vega

Mother Theresa understood the laying on of hands What I often wonder is how she kept from hearing love’s demands If in her loneliness she ever dreamed of following earthly commands, oh yeah Mother Theresa

World Before Columbus Suzanne Vega

It would be as flat as the world before Columbus That's the day that I lose half my sight If your life were taken from me All the trees would freeze in this cold ground It would be as cruel as the

(I'll Never Be Your) Maggie May Suzanne Vega

I'll never be your Maggie May The one you loved and left behind The face you see in light of day And then you cast away That isn't me in that bed you'll find I'd rather take myself away Be like those ladies

Cracking Suzanne Vega

happens A lot Walk with me What we have got And we will see Ah...My footsteps are ticking Like water dripping from a tree Walking a hairline And stepping very carefully Hearing muffled Soon it will hit the

Stockings Suzanne Vega

It's between the binding of her stockings and her skin.

Tom\'s Diner (feat. DNA) Suzanne Vega

[Tom\'s diner] by Suzanne Vega I am sitting in the morning At the diner on the corner I am waiting at the counter For the man to pour the coffee And he fills it only halfway And before I even

Casual Match Suzanne Vega

Against the flame I see The outline of a man against a night Take back your sympathy I do not need to drink that bitter stuff I'd rather break the thread That bound us close, and say we called a bluff