Marlene on the Wall Suzanne Vega

Observe the blood, the rose tattoo Of the fingerprints on me from you Other evidence has shown That you and I are still alone We skirt around the danger zone And don\'t talk about it later Marlene

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anniversary Suzanne Vega

Fall and all attendant memories Crowd the day with unrelated histories Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies To hang around each corner Hang around each street.

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

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

St. Clare (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

call on that saint and the candle that burns keeping her safe until her return plaster and paint holding the fire a poor woman's saint holding all man's desire bold little bird fly away home

The Queen And The Soldier Suzanne Vega

The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside.

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.

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

Horizon (There Is A Road) Suzanne Vega

There is a road Beyond this one It’s called the path We don’t yet take I can feel how it longs To be entered upon It calls to me with a cry And an ache As we go along this one And we live the way we do

The Queen And The Soldier (Live) Suzanne Vega

The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside.

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

As A Child Suzanne Vega

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 a life Pick up a stick Dig up a crack Dirt in the

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

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

Jacob And The Angel Suzanne Vega

The angel came to Jacob The room began to glow Jacob asked the angel Are you friend or are you foe The angel never answered But smote him on the thigh They wrestled through the darkness Till morning filled

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

Lolita Suzanne Vega

Lolita Almost grown Lolita Go on home Hey girl Don't be a dog all your life Don't beg for Some little crumb of affection Don't try To be somebody's wife So young You need a word of protection Lolita Almost

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

When Heroes Go Down Suzanne Vega

When heroes go down They go down fast So don't expect any time to Equivocate the past When heroes go down They land in flame So don't expect any slow and careful Settling of blame I heard

Fool's Complaint Suzanne Vega

How I hate the Queen of Pentacles Sitting on her golden throne In her domestic tyranny All roads lead back to her alone The whole wide world is a great big drain And the vortex is her heart Her needs and

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

Tombstone Suzanne Vega

I like a tombstone cause it weathers well and if it stands or if it crumbles only time will tell there'll be no dancing on the gravestone you must cut it deep if you carve my name in marble you must let

Silver Bridge Suzanne Vega

My heart is full today For the recently departed Of sorrow and of sympathy Into that land uncharted The old man turned away from me The stairway he ascended I heard his struggle through the night with

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

Last Years Troubles Suzanne Vega

Last year's troubles are so old fashioned the robber on the highway the pirate on the seas maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining the earrings and swashbuckling blouses that please here we have

99.9F Suzanne Vega

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees Stable now, with rising possibilities It could be normal but it isn't quite Could make you want to stay awake at night You seem to me Like a man 0n the verge of burning

99.9 F° Suzanne Vega

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees It could be normal but it isn't quite Stable now, with rising possibilities Could make you want to stay awake at night You seem to me Like a man 0n the verge of burning 99.9 Fahrenheit

99.9F° Suzanne Vega

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees It could be normal but it isn't quite Stable now, with rising possibilities Could make you want to stay awake at night You seem to me Like a man 0n the verge of burning 99.9 Fahrenheit

99.9 Degrees Farenheit Suzanne Vega

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees Stable now, with rising possibilities It could be normal but it isn`t quite Could make you want to stay awake at night You seem to me Like a man 0n the verge of burning 99.9 Fahrenheit

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?"

If I Were A Weapon Suzanne Vega

oooh if I were a weapon you said I'd be a gun lethal at close range i guess with silencer and stun but I feel more like a needle always pulling on the thread always making the same point again and wondering

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

Tom's Diner 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 half way and before I even argue He is looking out the window at

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

Some Journey Suzanne Vega

If we had met in a darkened room Where people do not stay But shadows touch and pass right through And never see the day Would you have taken me upstairs And turned the lamplight low?

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

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

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

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

I hear the click. These men are hard. I see your fate. I'll see you You through. Ice within. You're new to me. I'm new to you. And it's all cement in the government. Approved?

Small Blue Thing Suzanne Vega

knees aginst my mouth I am perectly round I am watching you I am cold aginst your skin You are perfectly reflected Iam lost inside your pocket I am lost against Your fingers I am falling down the

Machine Ballerina Suzanne Vega

a thing on a string to be thrown and retrieved like a phone call received on somebody's birthday to tease and delight and then say goodnight and then just say goodbye? Am I a toy on a tray ?