Suzanne Vega piosenki

Where I'm from There's poverty All kinds of inequality Nobody comes here Nobody leaves Don't have to go far Even to see The Whipping Report In the library Hear one voice Start singing In the dirt Twelve picks are ringing Nobody comes here Nobody leaves Do...

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 degrees Pale as a candle And your face i...

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 At angel's door, You have to leave it on the floor, Don't bring it in. He can't show What...

I saw your face I'd knew you'd haunt me For all... of my life Rising above me If you could want me, I'd be No man's wife Everyone sees you Everyone knows you How can I possibly compare? Who could attain you, with All of your pain, who could Possibly hold one...

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. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitries Carrying words as strangers exch...

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 X3 Have a life Pick up a stick Dig up a crack Dirt in the street Becomes a town All of th...

You make a really good girl As girls go Still kind of look like a guy I never thought to wonder why If I could pull this off Would I know for certain The real situation Behind the curtain So beautiful damsel in distress Not exactly natural Stunning none the...

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 in a cardboard box Through the tickings and the to...

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 no longer my friends And the games we once played have no m...

He said you stand in your own shoes I said I'd rather stand in someone else's He said you look from your direction I said I like to keep perspective Close to the middle of the network It seems we're looking for a center What if it turns out to be hollow...

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 made real one thing I know this day will go don...

I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting for your train. I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting for your train. But you've been too long darling and it looks like rain. I have seen these strange little girls who come up t...

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 You're asking for But blood makes noise It's a r...

When blood sees blood Of its own It sings to see itself again It sings to hear the voice it's known It sings to recognize the face One body split and passed along the line From the shoulder to the hip I know these bones as being mine And the curving of the li...

What's that they told you about a book & a cover? Don't judge so quickly, Is it too much too remember? 'Cause pictures lie, you know. I'll show it's so. Just give it one thought. What's that they taught you? To revere a kind of beauty? To paint on that pr...

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 hole that ripped in living In my book of dreams In my...

The way of the world Has taken its toll Ravaged my body And bitten my soul I am ruined by rain Weathered by wind I've been invaded Without and within And I ask I am asking you Asking you if you Might still want me. Once you said I'm made of fin...

Sonny boy, you need new sneakers Better go into town and get then Friday night Come to think of it, kid, you need just about everything But I think things are gonna be all right, Yes, I think things are gonna be all right. So you went and got yourself back in...

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 him into me Now today Come morning light He sails away After one last...

It won't do to dream of caramel, to think of cinnamon and long for you. It won't do to stir a deep desire, to fan a hidden fire that can never burn true. I know your name, I know your skin, I know the way these things begin; But I don't know ho...