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

St. Clare (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

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

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

Song In Red And Grey Suzanne Vega

, lives within her still cause she looked at me with her eyes though I had only just met her right then I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise Did i break the thread, or did you break the thread

Songs In Red and Gray (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

, lives within her still cause she looked at me with her eyes though I had only just met her right then I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise Did i break the thread, or did you break the thread

Songs In Red and Gray Suzanne Vega

within her still cause she looked at me with her eyes though I had only just met her right then I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise did i break the thread, or did you break the thread?

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

It Makes Me Wonder Suzanne Vega

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

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

Small Blue Thing Suzanne Vega

Today i am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye With my 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

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

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

Caramel (장윤주 추천곡) Suzanne Vega

It wont 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 dont know how I would live with myself

Caramel (Live) Suzanne Vega

It won't do To stir a deep desire, To fan a hidden fire That can never burn true.

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

Caramel Suzanne Vega

It won't do To stir a deep desire, To fan a hidden fire That can never burn true.

(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

Thin Man Suzanne Vega

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 will be I can

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.

Machine Ballerina Suzanne Vega

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?

(If You Were) In My Movie Suzanne Vega

the ever present danger Keep the holster at your hip If you were in my movie If you were in my movie If you were in my movie If you were in my movie You could be the priest Long black frock White

(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

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

Widow's Walk (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk Consider me a widow, boys and I will tell you why. It's not the man, but it's the marriage that was drowned.

Widow's Walk Suzanne Vega

Consider me a widow, boys And I will tell you why. It's not the man, but it's the marriage That was drowned.

The Queen And The Soldier Suzanne Vega

He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will Only first I am asking you why."

The Queen And The Soldier (Live) Suzanne Vega

He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will Only first I am asking you why."

Some Journey Suzanne Vega

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

As Girls Go Suzanne Vega

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

Rosemary Suzanne Vega

I had met you just the day before, like an accident of fate, in the window there behind your door. How I wanted to break in to that room beneath your skin, but all that would have to wait.

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

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

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

Bad Wisdom Suzanne Vega

What price to pay For bad wisdom What price to pay For bad wisdom Too young to know Too much too soon Bad wisdom Bad wisdom Mother you've taught me the laws are so fine If I'm good that I

My Favorite Plum Suzanne Vega

with secrets within, I've seen the rest, yes and that is the one for me See how it shines it will be so sweet I've been so dry it would make my heart complete See how it lays languid and slow Never

Edith Wharton`s Figurines Suzanne Vega

with prudences finances and fears her face and what its worth to her in the passing of the years see the portrait come to life see the vanity behind cause in the struggle for survival love is never

Edith Wharton’s Figurines Suzanne Vega

passions and with prudences Finances and fears Her face - what it's worth to her In the passing of the years See the portrait come to life See the vanity behind 'Cause in the struggle for survival Love is never

Frank & Ava Suzanne Vega

fire, his desire meant that everything must come undone And, so, now we 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

Angel’s Doorway Suzanne Vega

in (Don't bring it in) He can't show What she doesn't want to know Those things he's seen She knows the smell Of that life he can't tell Of the fires and the flesh and confusion Inside his brain It's never

Solitaire (Album Version) Suzanne Vega

Never use your threes and twos. Follow superstition. Otherwise you are going to lose. Compulsion makes you listen. Take what's wrong, and make it go right. Weave it like a prayer.

Solitaire Suzanne Vega

Never use your threes and twos. Follow superstition. Otherwise you are going to lose. Compulsion makes you listen. Take what's wrong, and make it go right. Weave it like a prayer.

Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands Suzanne Vega

trained upon the church this one caught his eye to keep the bishop in his place he muttered with a sigh his mood was melancholy his attitude severe his inner burden weighed upon him mightily a bird as never

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

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

Penitent Suzanne Vega

Once I stood alone so proud Held myself above the crowd And now I'm low on the ground. From here I look around to see What avenues belong to me I can't tell what I've found.

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

Ludlow Street Suzanne Vega

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.

luka Suzanne Vega

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