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

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.

Song Of Sand Suzanne Vega

If sand waves were sound waves What song would be in the air now What stinging tune Could split this endless noon And make the sky swell with rain If war were a game that a man or a child Could

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.

Solitaire (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Black on the red and the red on the black. It's a tic of a tired mind. Come and sit down, won't you try your luck. See if you unwind. Never use your threes and twos. Follow superstition.

Solitaire Suzanne Vega

Black on the red and the red on the black. It's a tic of a tired mind. Come and sit down, won't you try your luck. See if you unwind. Never use your threes and twos. Follow superstition.

Wooden Horse (Casper Hauser's Song) Suzanne Vega

I came out of the darkness A small white wooden horse I'd been holding inside Holding one thing If you could tell them this And when I'm dead What was wood became alive That what was wood became alive

Neighborhood Girls (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Used to hang out, in front of McKinsey's Bar, and we were Clientele... "Oh she's gone?" Interested in her, and her "Yes, she's gone, gone, gone."

Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through) (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Loud fan and a big tin can. They've gone to get your man. Through gate 3 with picture ID. This old billfold 10 AM. Experiences security. I'll see your face through bar and guard. I hear the click.

Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through) Suzanne Vega

Loud fan and a big tin can. They've gone to get your man. Through gate 3 with picture ID. This old billfold 10 AM. Experiences security. I'll see your face through bar and guard. I hear the click.

Rock In This Pocket (Song Of David) Suzanne Vega

Excuse me Turn your attention If I may 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 You darken my sun I'll make

Song Of The Stoic Suzanne Vega

I am a man I’ve been working all my days This is my accounting Of my means and of my ways More years are behind me now Than years that are ahead Looking back I feel This is my story to be said I faced

Woman On The Tier (I\'ll See You Through) (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Loud fan and a big tin can. Wait here. steer clear. They\'ve gone to get your man. 10 am. Through gate 3 with picture id. This old billfold Experiences security.

Calypso Suzanne Vega

<Calypso> My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that he was drowning And I brought

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

Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain Suzanne Vega

A man finds a bottle on the bottom shelf Forgotten and covered in dust The label is already half worn off Still, open it up he must As the corkscrew into the cork it goes He hears the weird refrain Do

The Queen And The Soldier Suzanne Vega

Down in the long narrow hall he was led And she never once took the crown from her head Into her rooms with her tapestries red She asked him there to sit down.

The Queen And The Soldier (Live) Suzanne Vega

Down in the long narrow hall he was led And she never once took the crown from her head Into her rooms with her tapestries red She asked him there to sit down.

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

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

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

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

Frank & Ava Suzanne Vega

know that it's not enough to be in love (Not enough to be in love, not enough to be in love) He's so true, she is, too; she says "I love you Frank," and then they drank all night What a fight!

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

Crack In The Wall Suzanne Vega

With field and forest, clouds and sun Cascades of salt water falling.

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

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?

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

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

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

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?"

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

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

Undertow (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

I believe right 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

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

New York Is A Woman Suzanne Vega

New York City spread herself before you With her bangles and her spangles and her stars You were impressed with a city so undressed You had to go out cruising all the bars Your business trip extended through

(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

Some Journey Suzanne Vega

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

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

Small Blue Thing Suzanne Vega

You are perfectly reflected Iam lost inside your pocket I am lost against Your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am throwm aginst the sky I am raining down in

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

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

(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 Then you cast away That isn't me in that bed you'll find I'd rather take myself away Be like those ladies

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

Stockings Suzanne Vega

I don't care for tights, she says and does not tell me why She hikes her skirt above her knee revealing one brown thigh I see, I say, and wonder at her slender little fingers How cleverly they pull

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