Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles de Suzanne Vega

Listado de Canciones

1. Crack In The Wall4:24

   Letra

   A crack appeared inside a wall, A door sprang up around it. Each of these so finely drawn I could not believe I found it. A wildish wind blew it open wide, My childish mind followed on outside, And so I found myself among My hearts delight surrounded. A world of wonder lay without, It was all of nature’s calling. With field and forest, clouds and sun Cascades of salt water falling. Heights and valleys, dark ravines Ivy thick and wild, deep and thorny scenes, And yet each thing did love its place In the lap of all of nature’s sprawling. And so and so it goes. I asked the one whose land this was If I might have a token To take with me back to the other side To have and to keep unspoken. I asked three times and was thrice denied. I asked again without my pride And found I’d lost that world I’d lived Returned as one now broken, To a crumb, a rag, a withered leaf In the chilly winds of cold relief I knew myself as I had been, As from a dream awoken. And so and so it goes. But then… a crack appeared inside a wall And a door sprang up around it.
2. Fool's Complaint2:40
3. I Never Wear White3:08

   Letra

   I never wear white White is for virgins Children in summer Brides in the park. My color is black black black Black is for secrets Outlaws and dancers For the poet of the dark. Black is the truth Of my situation. And for those of my station In life. All other colors Lie. I never wear white White is too blinding Always reminding Of the innocent who fall My color is black black black For the crone, and the bastard The schoolgirl in uniform The servant in the hall. Black is the truth Of my situation, And for those of my station In life. All other colors Lie. My color is black black black Like the gangster and widow It’s the shade and the shadow It’s the depth into your eye My color is black black black black black
4. Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands4:19

   Letra

   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 made of wood and steel Was silenced in it’s cry Something must have happened What, he wouldn’t say But shown within The wider lens of history [Chorus:] His mission the transmission Of technology One cannon trained upon the church This one caught his eye “to keep the bishop in his place” He muttered with a sigh His mood was melancholy His attitude severe His inner burden Weighed upon him mightily A bird as never seen in books Flew in overhead A kind of dove it might have been But not a sound was said All the ancient knowledge lay In pieces on the ground The cause of all his suffering Was not for love of me. [Chorus:] His mission the transmission Of technology
5. Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain3:31
6. Jacob And The Angel4:05

   Letra

   The angel came to Jacob The room began to glow Jacob asked the angel Are you friend or are you foe? The angel never answered But smote him on the thigh They wrestled through the darkness Till morning filled the sky This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath Angel or demon, to the truth I am bound, and so This thing between us must be wrestled down Jacob held on to the angel, Who turned to fly, and to flee He said I must have your blessing Before I let you leave me The angel never answered But smote him on the thigh They wrestled through the darkness Till morning filled the sky And in the light He knew another name As he struggled and surrendered To the next part of the game This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath Angel or demon, to the truth I am bound, and so This thing between us must be wrestled down This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath Angel or demon to the truth I am bound and so This thing between us must be wrestled down.
7. Silver Bridge3:47

   Letra

   My heart is full today For the recently departed Of sorrow and of sympathy Into that land uncharted The old man turned away from me The stairway he ascended I heard his struggle through the night with Saturn’s hand extended All those nights when you can’t sleep Your heart and mind is racing Are you standing on that bridge Which way are you facing? I stared upon his body as My soul was filled with wonder I stayed there frozen in one place I could not be pulled asunder All those nights when you can’t sleep Your heart and mind is racing Are you standing on that bridge Which way are you facing? I’d sent him upstairs with a kiss Now he lay in light of silver It seemed to me I saw that bridge That he had taken over Should I make the move to him? He wasn’t mine for claiming I witnessed all there was to see And withdrew without the naming When I knew that he had been So much more than sleeping I stayed with him the afternoon In a kind of vigil keeping All those nights when you can’t sleep Your heart and mind is racing Are you standing on that bridge Which way are you facing? My heart is full today For the recently departed Of sorrow and of sympathy Into that land uncharted.
8. Song Of The Stoic4:06

   Letra

   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 Inside the hallway of our home 18 years of pain Upon my body to the bone Demons lived inside of him They forced him to the act The layers of the bruises To my body was the fact. Ooooh I grew and went into the world I learned to know it’s code Of spoken and unspoken And I learned to love the road I shoulder every burden like A mule with a heavy pack Every coin I earn is another Knot within my back. Ooooh Ecstasy and pleasure come At much too great a cost I keep myself upon the earth But measure what I’ve lost Winged things they brush against me Never mine to hold I keep my eyes upon the ground And carry on as old. I met a woman She had the gifted touch Her hands were wise with healing And with wonder and all such As the fates would have it Each to others we are wed We confine ourselves to friendship And we stay out of the bed. Oooh Now I turn around to face The specter of my age My soul it fights my body Like a bird will fight its cage. I see that last horizon I hope it brings me peace I look forward to the day At last my body knows release. Ooooh Ooooh
9. Laying On Of Hands/Stoic 23:53
10. Horizon (There Is A Road)2:52

    Letra

    There is a road Beyond this one It’s called the path We don’t yet take I can feel how it longs To be entered upon It calls to me with a cry And an ache As we go along this one And we live the way we do Love pulls us on to that Distant horizon so true. I knew a man He lived in jail And his tale Is often told He dreamed of that line that he Called the divine And when he was free He led his country Yes he taught the way of love And he lived in that way too Love pulled him on to that Distant horizon so true. There is a road beyond this one Called the path we don’t yet take I can feel how it longs to be entered upon It calls to me with a cry and an ache As we go along this one And we live the way we do Love pulls us on to that distant horizon Love pulled him on to that perfect horizon Love pulls us on to that distant horizon So true.