Suzanne Vega

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 r

by:李方 Even if I am in love with you All this to say, whats 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 Marlene watches from t

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

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

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 divided Clouds gathered in the sky The belfry ma

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

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

Suzanne Vega - Anniversary (Beauty & Crime) Fall in 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

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 Id make you wear me like a scar And I would burn myself Into your memory And r

Tom's Diner 汤姆的小餐馆 [歌词] 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 清晨, 我坐在

Suzanne Vega - Caramel (Nine Objects of Desire) 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 w

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

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 Solitu

Suzanne Vega - Casual Match (Nine Objects of Desire) 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 rath

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 the

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 s

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 falli

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 sweet

"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

Upload By JcChan 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? Would