Suzanne Vega

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...

A wounded, sparrow Timid and shy A fallen deer, that's what they call me But I'm an iron butterfly A childish liar A devilish bitch I can be innocent and charming And suddenly switch But you've got to understand Understand, understand That I've never belonge...

I love the world Sometimes it loves me The love of my life Is humanity The rich and the poor The broken and whole All come together Feeding the soul Each one belongs at this feast Drink to the pleasures Drink for the pains Drink for the losses Dr...

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream Ah, child of countless trees Ah, child of boundless seas What you are, what you're meant to be Speaks his name, though you were born to me Bor...

I only turned to see What hand had set this inner field alight 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 b...

A pistol shot at 5 o'clock The bells of heaven ring Tell me what you've done it for No, I won't tell you a thing Yesterday, I begged you Before I hit the ground All I leave behind me Is only what I've found If you can abide it Let the hurdy-gurdy pl...

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. A wildish wind blew it open wide, My childish mind followed on outside, And so I found myself among My hearts delight surrounded....

It's a one time thing It just happens A lot Walk with me And we will see What we have got Ah... My footsteps are ticking Like water dripping from a tree Walking a harline And stepping very carefully Ah... My heart is broken It is worn out at the...

Tweet I am an average white girl who comes from Upper Manhattan. And I am totally white, but I was raised half Latin. This caused me some problems among my friends and my foes, Cause when you look into my face, it's clear what everybody else knows: My da...

Daniella, she sits by the tree in the playground sometimes we go there and the children all play But no one can tell me just where is Daniella when she looks in the distance that way Daniella, your hair is growing wild like a jungle like a garden of ivy that'...

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 you what you like but never uncork Uncork what yo...

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 worth to her In the passing of the years See the portra...

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 is revealed to you Fat man and dancing girl And most of the show...

you said, come with me and so I did I thought I could take all your sorrow I thought I could hold it all I never imagined your oceans so bitter the killing the falling the slaughter of feather and bone. I sat, still in the five o'clock light the sun came in t...

Fifty-fifty chance The doctor said In the cardiac room As she's lying in bed There's a pan on the floor Filled with something black I need to know I'm afraid to ask I hug you I hum to you I've come to you I touch you I tell you I love you I si...

Here I am at last, I've just jumped off the train I'm about to start my life as a wanderer in the rain I know so many people would give anything to be in my shoes Well, that's all right for them to say, but my shoes are soaked right through. I don't know what...

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 wants and Wishes and whims All take preceden...

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 know it's not enough to be in love He's so true. she...

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 In the dimming diamonds Scattering in the park In the tickling And the trembling Of freeze tag In the dark We play...

If you had no name If you had no history If you had no books If you had no family If it were only you Naked on the grass Who would you be then? This is what he asked And I said I wasn't really sure But I would probably be Cold And now I'm freezing Freezing 

In my heart's currency you are golden You are shining like a sun upon a cold grey sea Here's what I do not know How I come to love you so And in time I'll be worth to it Once your words they fell like pennies on the sidewalk And they shone for everyone...

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 other now As part of the whole design Oh, hold me like a...

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. well, you drink for ten and you smoke for twenty and your fickle heart will never be true but still...

Virginia Woolf She leaves me cold I recognize the genius But I'm twice as bold I have more to say Than Hemingway Lord knows, compared to Faulker I say it in a better way Graham Greene He loves me He loves my poetic Sensibility Katherine Anne Porter Might be...

„Have you met Sir Jones ?” Someone said as we shook hands He was just Sir Jones to me. Then I said ”Sir Jones You're a boy who understand I'm a girl who must be free”. And all at once I lost my breath And all at once was scared to death And all at once I own...

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, And make the difference In what you see Ah... He's j...

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

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 Love pulls us on to that Distant horizon so t...

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. And for those of my station In life...

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 if you heard what I just said if you were a weap...

I heard it said somewhere that one day all good things come to an end. I turn around to see you. And if I do or not, it all depends. I was born the day I met you, Lived a while when you loved me, Died a little when we broke apart. Yesterday, it would have...

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 from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven He'...

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 throat If you were in my movie You could be the detective...

If you were to kill me now right here I would still look you in the eye And I would burn myself into your memory as long as you were still alive I would live inside of you I'd make you wear me like a scar And I would burn myself into your memory and run th...

That's enough. Out of you. Tonight. My darling. This show is over for now. The monkey is dead. I detest all this drunken brawling. Now let's see if you can make it into this bed. How I love you. How I loathe you. It's a sharp, quick love. I feel....

Institution green The walls are cracked and dim And we are standing in a line Waiting for our faces to be seen Institution green Watch the floor and cound the hours None will meet my eyes Private people in this public place I wonder if they'll take a look Fi...

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 and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run r...

No one admits they ever cry in public Lately we all do because we must We do because a man stands at The bottom of a building Looking for his brothers body in the dust It hit home It still does It hits home It makes me feel a pain within my person L...

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 much reject all of that ilk I have to say it m...

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 the sky This thing between us, has wings, i...

We're friends, that's all we are and that's all we will become It's understood we're only friends And it's better that way for everyone concerned So if you brush against me when we're walking side by side I won't wonder what you're thinking 'cause we've got no...

Watch while the queen In one false move Turns herself into a pawn Sleepy and shaken And watching while the blury night Turns into a very clear dawn Do you love any, do you love none, Do you love many, can you love one, Do you love me? Do you love a...

If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be These words are too solid They don't move fast enough To catch the blur in the brain That flies by and is gone Gone Gone Gone I'd like t...

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 heroes of times that have passed now but nobody these day...

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 understood the laying on of hands Touch is a langu...

If you want me You can find me Left of center Off of the strip In the outskirts In the fringes In the corner Out of the grip When they ask me " What are you looking at?" I always answer " Nothing much" (not much) I think they know that I'm looki...

Lightning struck a while ago And it's blazing much too fast But give it rain of waiting time And it will surely pass Blow over And it's happening so quickly As I feel the flaming time And I grope about the embers To relieve my stormy mind Blow over Shaken th...

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 grown Lolita Go on home Hey girl...

Lover Beloved Behold each of these The lover pursues The beloved one of Lees Lover Beloved From countries apart Each one alone In the land of the heart Each one alone In the land of the heart Lover Beloved Forever stripped bare Turn in the night And it's he...

Love is the only thing that matters. Love is the only thing that's real. I know we hear this every day. It's still the hardest thing to feel. This time When I go back to Ludlow Street, I find each stoop and doorway's incomplete, Without you there. An...

My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes, I think you've seen me before If you hear something late at night Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight Just don't ask me what it was Just don't ask me what it was Jus...

Am I an afternoon's pastime? 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 ? a soft piece of clay queen or clown for...

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

Men in a war If they've lost a limb Still feel that limb As they did before He lay on a cot He was drenched in a sweat He was mute and staring But feeling the thing He had not I know how it is When something is gone A piece of your eyesight Or maybe your vis...

Men will be men and they'll call me the governor I'll walk through the bar and I'll buy the next round Because this is my ship and I say it's my destiny And we'll all go up and go down, we go down, go down Through the town and back up through the avenues And...

My favorite plum hangs so far from me See how it sleeps and hear how it calls to me See how the flesh presses the skin, It must be bursting with secrets within, I've seen the rest, yes and that is the one for me See how it shines it will be so swee...

"We had our Neighborhood girl, she Used to hang out, in front of McKinsey's Bar, and we were Interested in her, and her Clientele... We just wonder where she's gone..." "Oh she's gone?" "Yes, she's gone, gone, gone." "I think you know your Neighborhood girl,...

New York City spread herself before you With her bangles and her spangles and her stars You were impressed with the city so undressed You had to go out cruising all the bars Your business trip extended through the weekend Suburban boy here for your first time...

New York is my destination New York is where I will be from New York is made for grander things Just Like Me I will lunch at the Algonquin Swing by the Plaza, waltz on in The Three Arts Club, I'll live there Indefinitely New York is made for grander things J...

It's 2 o'clock this morning every sane person is asleep I wonder where you are tonight and down whose hallways do you creep I know you, you're out somewhere you know you shouldn't be Anyhow, wherever you are, I know you're not thinking of me. So it's goodnigh...

By day give thanks By night beware Half the world in sweetness 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 Find the line, find the shape Through the grain Find t...

Ante up. And don't be shy. Who is that man who is catching my eye? What's underneath all of the deadpan face? Sitting so pretty with a criminal grace? Lamebrain Pete wants to Spit in the Sea. He's got a cool hand but it isn't for me. Butcher Boy thinks...

I said, I am a little girl he said, you never were I said, I am not ready he said, then tell me when you are I said, I am too young for this he said, you are not really I said, I think I am afraid he said, you're being silly not me not me I said, I do not un...

I was just an acrobat, high above the street Pointing at the ground the empty sky beneath my feet The perfect fall, no one could tell at all That it was killing me You were just an astronaut, floating on a spark Tearing up the atmosphere, burning down th...

We're all in one white field We thought there was no end Walking as the field went dry What did we do then? We're all in one white place Burning every leaf and bough Watching as the field goes dry And what do we do now? And what do we do now? 

Once I stood alone so proud held myself above the crowd now i am low on the ground. From here i look around to see what avenues belong to me I can't tell what ive found. Now what would You have me do i ask you please? I wait to hear. The mother, an...

This line is burning Turning to ash as it hits the air Every step is a day in the week It's a Sunday or Monday A march over months of the year This life is burning Turning to ash as it hits the air Every death is an end in the race It's a stopping and startin...

She's a pornographer's dream, he said. I knew what he meant. But it made me imagine: what kind of a dream He would have, that hadn't been spent? Would he still dream of the thigh? of the flesh upon high? What he saw so much of? Wouldn't he dream of the thing...

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 daises on the ramparts Blowing free His heart was divided Clouds gathered in the sky The belfry m...

Let's tell the future Let's see how it's been done. By numbers. By mirrors. By water. By dots made at random on paper. By salt. By dice. By meal. By mice. By dough of cakes. By sacrificial fire. By fountains. By fishes. Writing in ashes. Birds. Herbs. Smoke...

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 of chiffon the top of the umbrella had co...

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

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 see If you turn from me You darken my sun You snap that thin thread I...

Somewhere in a room With a poster on a wall Of a man with his hand In a fist Is a woman who's drinking And her dress is so tight You can see every breath That she takes Every sigh, every sway You can hear everything that they say Something's begun like a war...

Do you remember how you walked with me down the street into the square? How the women selling rosemary pressed the branches to your chest, promised luck and all the rest, and put their fingers in your hair? I had met you just the day before, like an ac...

Now the time has come to speak I was not able And water through a rusted pipe Could make the sense that I do Gurgle, mutter Hiss, stutter Moan the words like water Rush and foam and choke Having waited This long of a winter I fear I only Croak and sigh Some...

Tide came in And then went out And left behind In hollow places Cradled once And cooling twice You feel the sting of Salt water Wave goes back And leaves the sand It's high and barren Dry and wasting Cradled once And cooling twice You feel the sting of Salt...

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 Saturn's hand extended All those nights when you...

Today I am A small blue thing Like a marble Or an eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am watching you I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against Your fingers I am falling down...

Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read your palm. I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy Before I let you take me home. Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. We...

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 to a vinegar shine Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's...

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. Otherwise you are going to lose. Compulsion makes you listen. Take what...

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 to me with her hand extended Her palm is split with a flower with a flame Solitude...

If I had met you on some journey Where would we be now If we had met some eastbound train Through some black sleeping town Would you have worn your silken robes All made of royal blue? Would I have dressed in smoke and fire For you to see through? If we had...

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 within her still cause she looked at me with her eyes...

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 think of winning What kind of rule Can overthrow a fool...

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 my father down Inside the hallway of our home 1...

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 could I but ride herd on the wind and the foam all of the souls...

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 upon the threads of recent slumbers Do you know wher...

There's a sound Across the alley Of cold metal Touching skin And you can see If you look in her window That she has gone and cut Her hair again In straight lines Straight lines Those soft golden lights in the morning Are now on her wooden floor...

On any southern afternoon If anyone would care to look A face appears inside a house A terrible face it is sexless and white It is dim like the faces in dreams It's Miss Amelia She's waiting by the window Remembering the laughing In the cafe down below Once...

I like you and you like him and he likes me and we all love each other. We like to sit in the cafe and eat and drink and talk all day and watch the sun. We like to read the newspaper and talk about him and her and who is getting along with who these days, and...

Think about the world you know Now think of where it wants to go All things you can see around you You can change them Rearrange them in your mind If you've heard tales of transformation Now then one two three, You could be the man who played god H...

I have dreamed that many men Have marched across this field I have wished that I could take each man And hold him against the flame in my heart I had a dream that my face was old And all the children came to see First they laughed and then they ran And I slam...

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. He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill And I've wondered who'...

I am sitting by my window; I am thinking of my rent. I am looking through my pockets, and I'm wondering where it went. I am feeling like the Devil, maybe like the Devil's wife. I am singing for my supper. I am singing for my life. Things go up and things go d...

When I was a little girl Younger than nine or ten I once spoke to the Silver Lady But I never saw her again. To me she flew out of the sky She was born riding on the water Her hair blew all around her She was the crazy man's only daughter. I used to see her...

He is not my friend, but he is with me Like a shadow is with a foot that falls His hand is on my back when I step from the sidewalk Or when I'm walking down these darkened halls He's the Thin Man With a date for me To arrive at some point I don't know when it...

Those whole girls Hurl down words Run in packs With bloom to spare They know health Know it well Skim the cream And fill the brim Drip with news Spin intact Blaze and stun And feel no lack Breathe with ease Need no mercy Move in light Run in...

Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad It's just that there's so much to do And I'm tired of sleeping Oh Mom, the old man is telling me something His eyes are wide and his mouth is thin And I just can't hear what he's saying Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be wa...

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 argue He is looking Out the window At somebody Coming in "It is...

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

I knew a plant Whose roots were bound And returned Into the ground Every day I watched it grow Every day It struggled so Roots were bound roots were bound Roots were bound into the ground Watched it grow watched it grow Watched it as it struggled...

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 Salt wearing down to the bone Like sand against the stone Agai...

My squeezed heart divides into two wide wings World is a sodden place if you don't belong to any thing Noha may have got it wrong chause there's one more it cut be wrong This must be the irony of fate I in a world I always separate All of the people have...

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 you say You look out for the feet of clay That someone will be falling...

Consider me a widow, boys and I will tell you why. It's not the man, but it's the marriage that was drowned. So I walk the walk and wait with watchful eye out to the sky, Looking for a kind of vessel I have never found. Though I saw it splinter I keep lookin...

Too hot. No air. 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. I hear the click. These men are hard. I'll see your face through bar and guard....

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

If your love were taken from me Every color would be black and white 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...

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 in Japan rather paint myself a face conjure...

Zephyr & 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 Long time memories Do you remember, h...