Suzanne Vega lyrics

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 knees
Hearing muffled
Seeing blind
Soon it will hit the Deep Freeze

And something is cracking
I don't know where
Ice on the sidewalk
Brittle braches

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 that we're actors
On a movie screen
I will be Dietrich
And you can be Dean

You stand
With your hand
In your pocket

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 it later

Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing

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 the stairs
I am skipping on the sidewalk
I am thrown against the sky

I am raining down in pieces
I am scattering like light

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
The wind has swept them through the apartment
She don't need them
Any more
Any more
Any more...

She's cut down
On her lovers
Though she still dreams

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
Against the shoreline

I am friend to the undertow
I take you in, I don't let go
And now I have you

I wanted to learn all the secrets

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 met in a darkened room
Where people do not stay
But shadows touch and pass right through
And never see the day

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'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."

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 any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me

One false move
And a secret prophecy
Well, if you hold it against her,

"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, she
Lives on my street, now, with
Eyes of ice
I've seen her in the morning, when she is
Walking in the sun
And I always thought that she

I am at your halfway station darling and Iâve been waiting
For your train.
I am at your halfway station darling and Iâve been waiting
For your train.
But youâve been too long darling and it looks like rain.

I have seen these strange little girls who come up to you
And they donât know when to stop.
I have watched your eye as it follows the line of the leg
Right up to the top.

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 when the sun goes down
We walk along the cobblestone ground.

He loves the city
With the bricks and broken bottles

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 into trouble
Went and got yourself into another fight
Come on here, let me see your eye, now itâs all black and swollen

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 thatâs been blown by the wind
In the morning we brush it and tie it with a ribbon
And in the evening it has flown loose again

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 through the crack

the floor to your room

was all splinters

and, still,

some are remaining

Here I am at last, Iâve just jumped off the train
Iâm 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, thatâs all right for them to say, but my shoes are soaked right through.

I donât know what made me want to come all the way out here
I guess when I was dreaming, my skies were always clear

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 wasnât really sure
But I would probably be
Cold

And now Iâm freezing
Freezing

(198? )

Weâre friends, thatâs all we are
And thatâs all we will become
Itâs understood
Weâre only friends
And itâs better that way
For everyone concerned
So if you brush against me
When weâre walking side by side
I wonât wonder what youâre thinking
âcause weâve got nothing to hide
And I know you didnât mean it that way

Lightning struck a while ago
And itâs blazing much too fast
But give it rain of waiting time
And it will surely pass
Blow over

And itâs happening so quickly
As I feel the flaming time
And I grope about the embers
To relieve my stormy mind
Blow over

Shaken this has left me
And laughing and undone
With a blinding bolt of sleeplessness
Thatâs just begun
And a windy crazy running

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 slammed the door behind them

And as the tears began to rise
You climbed the stairs
You came into my room
Where I was waiting there

Men will be men and theyâll call me the governor
Iâll walk through the bar and Iâll buy the next round
Because this is my ship and I say itâs my destiny
And weâll all go up and go down, we go down, go down

Through the town and back up through the avenues
And into the places where people donât stay
Go visit the king and then leave through the window

Itâs 2 oâclock this morning
Every sane person is asleep
I wonder where you are tonight
And down whose hallways do you creep
I know you, youâre out somewhere
You know you shouldnât be
Anyhow, wherever you are, I know youâre not thinking of me.

So itâs goodnight
Maybe Iâll see you in the morning
Soldier of the night
You try to combat the new day dawning

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, youâre being silly

Not me
Not me

I said, I do not understand
He said, you are pretending
That would seem to contradict
The message you are sending
I said, you must be lonely

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?

I am sitting by my window;
I am thinking of my rent.
I am looking through my pockets,
And Iâm wondering where it went.
I am feeling like the devil,
Maybe like the devilâs wife.
I am singing for my supper.
I am singing for my life.

Things go up and things go down,
And we have all these highs and lows,
But are we even in the end,
I donât think anybody knows,

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
Itâs high and barren
Dry and wasting
Cradled once
And cooling twice
You feel the sting of

Salt water

Taste this
Itâs really raw
It comes with the skin
And the sand still on it
And it comes with the shell

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 manâs only daughter.

I used to see her every day
Riding her golden pony
Only once did I hear her laugh
And it echoed far and lonely.

Once I watched the river run