Álbum Retrospective de Suzanne Vega - Canciones

Retrospective

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  1. LukaVer letra

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    letra de Luka

    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
    Just don't ask me what it was

    I think it's because I'm clumsy
    I try not to talk too loud
    Maybe it's because I'm crazy
    I try not to act too proud

    They only hit until you cry
    After that you don't ask why
    You just don't argue anymore
    You just don't argue anymore
    You just don't argue anymore

    Yes I think I'm okay
    I walked into the door again
    Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
    And it's not your business anyway
    I guess I'd like to be alone
    With nothing broken, nothing thrown

    Just don't ask me how I am [X3]

    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
    Just don't ask me what it was

    And they only hit until you cry
    After that, you don't ask why
    You just don't argue anymore
    You just don't argue anymore
    You just don't argue anymore

  2. Tom's Diner
  3. Marlene On The WallVer letra

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    letra de Marlene On The Wall

    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



    But the only soldier now is me

    I'm fighting things I cannot see

    I think it's called my destiny

    That I am changing



    Marlene on the wall



    I walk to your house in the afternoon

    By the butcher's shop with the sawdust strewn

    "Don't give away the goods too soon"

    Is what she might have told me



    And I tried so hard to resist

    When you held me in your handsome fist

    And reminded me of the night we kissed

    And of why I should be leaving



    Marlene watched from the wall

    Her mocking smile says it all

    As she records the rise and fall

    Of every soldier passing



    But the only soldier now is me

    I'm fighting things I cannot see

    I think it's called my destiny

    That I am changing



    Marlene on the wall



    Marlene watched from the wall

    Her mocking smile says it all

    As she records the rise and fall

    Of every soldier passing



    But the only soldier now is me

    I'm fighting things I cannot see

    I think it's called my destiny

    That I am changing



    Marlene on the wall



    And 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



    And I tried so hard to resist

    When you held me in your handsome fist

    And reminded me of the night we kissed

    And of why I should be leaving



    Marlene watches from the wall

    Her mocking smile says it all

    As she records the rise and fall

    Of every man who's been here



    But the only one here now is me

    I'm fighting things I cannot see

    I think it's called my destiny

    That I am changing



    Changing, changing, changing, changing



    Marlene watched from the wall

    Her mocking smile says it all

    As she records the rise and fall

    Of every soldier passing



    But the only soldier now is me

    I'm fighting things I cannot see

    I think it's called my destiny

    That I am changing



    Marlene on the wall

  4. CaramelVer letra

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    letra de Caramel

    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
    how I would live with myself,
    what I'd forgive of myself
    if you don't go.

    So goodbye,
    sweet appetite,
    no single bite
    could satisfy...

    I know your name,
    I know your skin,
    I know the way
    these things begin;

    But I don't know
    what I would give of myself,
    how I would live with myself
    if you don't go.

    It won't do
    to dream of caramel,
    to think of cinnamon
    and long
    for you.

  5. 99.9 F
  6. Tired Of SleepingVer letra

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    letra de Tired Of Sleeping

    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 waking
    It's just that there's so much to do
    And I'm tired of sleeping

    Oh Mom, the kids are playing in pennies
    They're up to their knees in money
    And the dirt of the churchyard steps

    Oh Mom, that man he ripped out his lining
    He tore out a piece of his body
    To show us his "clean quilted heart"

    Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
    It's just that there's so much to do
    And I'm tired of sleeping

    Oh Mom, the bird on the string is hanging
    Her bones are twisting and dancing
    She's fighting for her small life

    Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
    It's just that there's so much to do
    And I'm tired of sleeping

    Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
    It's just that there's so much to do
    And I'm tired of sleeping

  7. Small Blue ThingVer letra

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    letra de Small Blue Thing

    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
    Scattering like light
    Scattering like light

    Today I am
    A small blue thing
    Made of china
    Made of glass

    I am cool and smooth and curious
    I never blink
    I am turning in your hand
    Turning in your hand
    Small blue thing

  8. Blood Makes NoiseVer letra

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    letra de Blood Makes Noise

    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 ringing in my ear
    Blood makes noise
    And I can't really hear you
    In the thickening of fear

    I think that you might want to know
    The details and the facts
    But there's something in my blood
    Denies the memory of the acts
    So just forget it Doc.
    I think it's really
    Cool that you're concerned
    But we'll have to try again
    After the silence has returned

    Cause blood makes noise
    It's a ringing in my ear
    Blood makes noise
    And I can't really hear you
    In the thickening of fear

    Blood makes noise...

  9. Left Of Center
  10. (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May
  11. In LiverpoolVer letra

    [X]

    letra de In Liverpool

    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's ringing the bells in the church
    For the last half an hour
    He sounds like he's missing something
    Or someone that he knows he can't
    Have now and if he isn't
    I certainly am

    Homesick for a clock
    That told the same time
    sometimes you made no sense to me
    if you lie on the ground
    in somebody's arms
    you'll probably swallow some of their history

    And 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's ringing the bells in the church
    For the last half an hour
    He sounds like he's missing something
    Or someone that he knows he can't
    Have now and if he isn't
    I certainly am

    I'll be the girl who sings for my supper
    You'll be the monk whose forehead is high
    He'll be the man who's already working
    Spreading a memory all through the sky

    In Liverpool
    On Sunday
    No reason to even remember you now

    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's ringing the bells in the church
    For the last half an hour
    He sounds like he's missing something
    Or someone that he knows he can't
    Have now and if he isn't
    I certainly am

    In Liverpool [X2]

  12. GypsyVer letra

    [X]

    letra de Gypsy

    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 baby
    That will not fall asleep
    Curl me up inside you
    And let me hear you through the heat

    You are the jester of this courtyard
    With a smile like a girl's
    Distracted by the women
    With the dimples and the curls
    By the pretty and the mischievous
    By the timid and the blessed
    By the blowing skirts of ladies
    Who promise to gather you to their breast

    Oh, hold me like a baby...

    You have hands of raining water
    And that earring in your ear
    The wisdom on your face
    Denies the number of your years
    With the fingers of the potter
    And the laughing tale of the fool
    The arranger of disorder
    With your strange and simple rules
    Yes now I've met me another spinner
    Of strange and gauzy threads
    With a long and slender body
    And a bump upon the head

    Oh, hold me like a baby...

    With a long and slender body
    And the sweetest softest hands
    And we'll blow away forever soon
    And go on to different lands
    And please do not ever look for me
    But with me you will stay
    And you will hear yourself in song
    Blowing by one day

    Oh, hold me like a baby...

  13. Book Of DreamsVer letra

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    letra de Book Of Dreams

    In my book of dreams [X3]

    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 [X3]

    The spine is bound to last a life
    Tough enough to take the pounding
    Pages made of days of open hand

    In my book of dreams [X3]

    Number every page in silver
    Underline in magic marker
    Take the name of every prisoner
    Yours is there my word of honor

    I took your urgent whisper
    Stole the arc of a white wing
    Rode like foam on the river of pity
    Healed the hole that ripped in living

    In my book of dreams [X3]

  14. No Cheap ThrillVer letra

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    letra de No Cheap Thrill

    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 he'll be splitting the pot.
    But I've seen what he's got and it isn't a lot.

    (When deuces are wild you can follow the queen.
    I'd go too except I know where she's been.)

    I'll see you, I'll call you, I'll raise you
    But it's no cheap thrill
    It will cost you, cost you, cost you
    Anything you have to pay.

    I limit the straddles, and you shuffle and deal.
    When will the dealer reveal how he feels?
    Is the lucky beginner just a five-card stud?
    Is this winning streak going to be nipped in the bud?

    I'll see you, I'll call you, I'll raise you
    But it's no cheap thrill
    It will cost you, cost you, cost you
    Anything you have to pay.

    I'll match you, I'll bet you, I'll play you,
    But it's no cheap thrill
    It will cost you, cost you, cost you
    Anything you have to pay.

  15. CalypsoVer letra

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    letra de 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 him into me
    Now today
    Come morning light
    He sails away
    After one last night
    I let him go.

    My name is Calypso
    My garden overflows
    Thick and wild and hidden
    Is the sweetness there that grows
    My hair it blows long
    As I sing into the wind
    My name is Calypso
    And I have lived alone
    I live on an island
    I tell of nights
    Where I could taste the salt on his skin

    Salt of the waves
    And of tears
    And though he,pulled away
    I kept him here for years
    I let him go

    My name is Calypso
    I have let him go
    In the dawn he sails away
    To be gone forever more
    And the waves will take him in again
    But he'll know their ways now
    I will stand upon the shore
    With a clean heart

    And my song in the wind
    The sand will sting my feet
    And the sky will burn
    It's a lonely time ahead
    I do not ask him to return
    I let him go
    I let him go

  16. World Before ColumbusVer letra

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    letra de World Before Columbus

    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 cruel as the world before Columbus
    Sail to the edge and I'd be there looking down

    Those men who lust for land
    And for riches strange and new
    Who love those trinkets of desire
    Oh they never will have you

    And they'll never know the gold
    Or the copper in your hair
    How could they weigh the worth
    Of you so rare

    If your love were taken from me
    Every light that's bright would soon go dim
    It would be as dark as the world before Columbus
    Down the waterfall and I'd swim over the brim

    Those men who lust for land
    And for riches strange and new
    Who love those trinkets of desire
    Oh they will never have you

    And they'll never know the gold
    Or the copper in your hair
    How could they weigh the worth
    Of you so rare

  17. Solitude StandingVer letra

    [X]

    letra de 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 to me with her hand extended
    Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

    Solitude stands in the doorway
    And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
    By her long cool stare and her silence
    I suddenly remember each time we've met

    And she turns to me with her hand extended
    Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

    And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
    And she says "I've come to lighten this dark heart"
    And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
    And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

    I turn to the crowd as they're watching
    They're sitting all together in the dark in the warm
    I wanted to be in there among them
    I see how their eyes are gathered into one

    And then she turns to me with her hand extended
    Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

    And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
    And she says"l've come to lighten this dark heart"
    And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
    And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

    Solitude stands in the doorway
    And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
    By her long cool stare and her silence
    I suddenly remember each time we've met

    And she turns to me with her hand extended
    Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

  18. PenitentVer letra

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    letra de Penitent

    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, and the matador,
    the mystic, all were here before,
    like me, to stare You down.

    You appear without a face,
    disappear, but leave your trace,
    i feel your unseen frown.

    Now what would you have me do
    I ask you please?
    i wait to hear
    your voice,
    the word,
    you say.
    i wait to see your sign
    would i
    obey?

    I look for you in heathered moor,
    the desert, and the ocean floor
    how low does one heart go.

    looking for your fingerprints
    i find them in coincidence,
    and make my faith to grow.

    Forgive me all my blindnesses
    my weakness and unkindnesses
    as yet unbending still.

    struggling so hard to see
    my fist against eternity
    and will you break my will?

    Now what would you have me do
    i ask you please?
    i wait to hear
    your voice,
    the word
    you say
    i wait
    to see your sign
    could i
    obey?

  19. Rosemary
  20. The Queen And The Soldier
  21. Woman On The Tier

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