Songs in Red and Gray de Suzanne Vega

Listado de Canciones

1. Penitent4:16

   Letra

   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?
2. Widow's Walk3:33
3. (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May3:46
4. It Makes Me Wonder4:00

   Letra

   The virgin mary on a chain has 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 have to say it makes me wonder if you are holding me to the same blue flame that you are under i feel you scolding me Your virgin mary's in the way hallucinate her face by day obscure the view in front of you it's me here made of clay You're playing near that line so thin, austerity? or just give in to endless appetite, embrace that white oblivion? I have to say it makes me wonder if you are holding me to the same blue flame that you are under i feel you scolding me And why so high the expectation? who could live up to this? well, there's no time now for explanation cold as an angel's kiss I have to say it makes me wonder if you were holding me to that cold blue flame that you are under when you were holding me
5. Soap And Water3:03

   Letra

   Soap and water take the day from my hand scrub the salt from my stinging skin slip me loose of this wedding band Soap and water hang my heart on the line scour it down in a wind of sand bleach it clean to a vinegar shine Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a headful of bees you are my little kite carried away in the wayward breeze Soap and water wash the year from my life straighten all that we trampled and tore heal the cut we call husband and wife Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a handful of thorns you are my little kite caught up again in the household storms Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a headful of bees you are my little kite carried away in the wayward breeze
6. Songs In Red and Gray4:18
7. Last Years Troubles3:35
8. Priscilla4:14

   Letra

   She'd come to my house and dance in the hall with the music up loud against the light on the wall I danced beside her feeling no shame we were in costume and this was a game She'd put on her skirt of layers of chiffon the top of the umbrella had come off so I put that on We'd dance together then an awkward ballet she was 20 years older than I was but still we did play She was 20 years older than me and many times my size but it's her little feet I remember and the look in her eyes Once when I saw her she made me a doll of ribbon and paper and ink and lace, I recall I danced beside her feeling no shame we were in costume and this was a game I think of her now I'm older I still love to dance something will shine through the body if you give it a chance
9. If I Were A Weapon2:45

   Letra

   If I were a weapon you said I'd be a gun lethal at close range i guess with silencer and stun but I feel more like a needle always pulling on the thread always making the same point again and wondering if you heard what I just said if you were a weapon a hammer's what you'd be blunt and heavy at the end and coming down on me but i've concealed a weapon in a pocket knife attack all folded up inside until you see the shine and then you'll want it back oooh if I were a weapon you said i'd be a gun lethal at close range I guess w silencer and stun well, if I am that weapon I am pointing now at you so just put down the hostage and we'll talk it down until we see this through
10. Harbor Song4:18

    Letra

    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. well, you drink for ten and you smoke for twenty and your fickle heart will never be true but still i feel the wind in from the harbor thats when i know the longing for you when i know the old longing for you. i saw you in my mind's eye you were laid out on your final day i stood in line to see that handsome face once more it had been so dear to me, and i kissed you as you lay you were so dear, i kissed you as you lay. now, whenever i do travel if to portugal, england, or spain as i do walk by the shipyards and the harbors i smell the salt, and the bay rum of your ghost again i know the salt, and the bay rum, you beside me again.
11. Machine Ballerina2:57

    Letra

    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? Am I a toy on a tray ? a soft piece of clay queen or clown for the day machine ballerina soldier of tin standing so loyal while you sit so royal then I'm put away? For your approval, perusal, and your possible refusal, I'm amusing, I'm a puppet for your play. Am I your Mad Magazine? skin trampoline pin-up pinball machine your fantasy girl of puzzling parts but none fits or starts we match wits but not hearts I'm heard but never seen? For your approval, perusal, and your possible refusal, I'm amusing, I'm a puppet for your play.
12. Solitaire2:07

    Letra

    Black on the red and the red on the black. It's a tic of a tired mind. Come and sit down, won't you try your luck. See if you unwind. 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. Wonder if you you'll spend the night? Playing solitaire? Do it again, when you find you're all done. Like an idiot savant. Shuffle up your luck. You see, you almost won. Now wrestle down what you want. Jack on the Queen, and the ten on the Jack. It's a happy repetition. You and your fate in a kind of check-mate. And you are your only competition. Take what's wrong, and make it go right. Weave it like a prayer. Wonder if you you'll spend the night? Playing solitaire?
13. St. Clare2:29

    Letra

    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 the wind and the foam all of the souls that curl by the fire they never know all man's desire watercress clings to the banks of the stream in the first grip of spring when the snow melts to green barefoot and cold and holding a lyre by the side of the road holding all man's desire call on the saint when the white candle burns keeping her safe until her return