Тексты песен «Suzanne Vega»

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The reproach on 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...