I'll never be your Maggie May. the one you loved and left behind. the face you see in light of day. and then you cast away. that isn't me in that bed you'll find. I'd rather take m...
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1. (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May 2. (If You Were) In My Movie If you were in my movie. I'd have you as the doctor. Small black bag. And a big black coat. I'd have you make a house call. To the woman. You could lay your. Diagnostic hand. Upon her belly...3. 99.9F 99. 9 Fahrenheit degrees. Stable now, with rising possibilities. It could be normal but it isn't quite. Could make you want to stay awake at night. You seem to me. Like a man. 0n the verge of bur...4. Angel's Doorway angel comes home. his clothes in a cloud. of the dust and the dirt and destruction. she waits inside. she knows he's arrived. she feels this with no introduction. at angel's door, you have t...5. Anniversary Fall and all attendant memories. Crowd the day with unrelated histories. Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies. To hang around each corner. Hang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind wh...6. As A Child As a child. You have a doll. You see this doll. Sitting in her chair. You watch her face. Her knees apart. Her eyes of glass. In a secretive stare. She seems to. She seems to. She seems to. Have a lif...7. As Girls Go You make a really good girl. As girls go. Still kind of look like a guy. I never thought to wonder why. If I could pull this off. Would I know for certain. The real situation. Behind the curtain. So b...8. As You Are Now I will take up all your tears. salty tissues through the years. spread them in the sun to dry. diamonds from each time you cry. I will treasure all your teeth. your laughter and the pearls beneath. ke...9. Bad Wisdom Mother the doctor knows something is wrong. Cause my body has strange information. He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child. But he doesn't dare ask the right question. Mother m...10. Big Space He said you stand in your own shoes. I said I'd rather stand in someone else's. He said you look from your direction. I said I like to keep perspective. Close to the middle of the network. I...11. Birth-day (love made real) Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. one thing I know. this pain will go. step through all that's left to feel. I wait to meet my love made real. don't move don't touch. don't talk...12. Black Widow Station I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting. for your train. I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting. for your train. But you've been too long darling...13. 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&apo...14. Blood Sings When blood sees blood. Of its own. It sings to see itself again. It sings to hear the voice it's known. It sings to recognize the face. One body split and passed along the line. From the shoulder...15. Book and a Cover What's that they told you. About a book and a cover?. Don't judge so quickly. Is it too much too remember?. 'cause pictures lie. You know. I'll show. It's so. Just give it one...16. Book Of Dreams In my book of dreams. In my book of dreams. In my book of dreams. 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 th...17. Bound the way of the world. has taken its toll. ravaged my body. and bitten my soul. I am ruined by rain. weathered by wind. I've been invaded. without and within. and I ask. I am asking you. asking yo...18. Brother Mine 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 thing...19. 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....20. 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 sk...21. Casual Match Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. Music by Suzanne Vega & Mitchell Froom. I only turned to see. What hand had set this inner field alight. Against the flame I see. The outline of a man against a night. Take...22. Crack In The Wall 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 s...23. Cracking 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...24. Daniella 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, you...25. Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain A man finds a bottle on the bottom shelf. Forgotten and covered in dust. The label is already half worn off. Still, open it up he must. As the corkscrew into the cork it goes. He hears the weird refra...26. Edith Wharton's Figurines edith wharton's lovely figurines. still speak to me today. from their mantlepiece in time. where they wrestle and they play. with passions and with prudences. finances and fears. her face and wha...27. Fat Man And Dancing Girl I stand in a wide flat land. No shadow or shade of a doubt. Whore the megaphone man. Met the girl with her hand that's. Covering most of her mouth. Fall in love with a bright idea. And the way a...28. Feather And Bone 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 feat...29. Fifty-Fifty Chance 50-50 chance. The doctor said. In the cardiac room. As she's lying in bed. There's a pan on the floor. Filled with something black. I need to know. I'm afraid to ask. I hug you. I hum t...30. First Day Out Here I am at last, I've just jumped off the train. I'm 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, that's all ri...31. Fool's Complaint How I hate the Queen of Pentacles!. Sitting on her golden throne. In her domestic tyranny. All roads lead back to her alone. The whole wide world is a great big drain. And the vortex is her heart. Her...32. Frank & Ava "We never fought in bed," she supposedly said about Sinatra. "The fight would start on the way to the bidet. ". on the way to the bidet. is when the trouble used to start. it didn...33. Freeze Tag 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...34. Freezing 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 wasn't r...35. Golden In my heart's currency you are golden. You are shining like the sun upon a cold gray sea. Here's what I did not know. How I'd come to love you so. And in time all you'd be worth to...36. 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...37. Harbor Song 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. You drink for 10 and you smoke...38. Headshots Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. Music by Mitchell Froom and Suzanne Vega. The sign said "Headshots". And that was all, A picture of a boy. And a number you could call, Two eyes in the shade. A mouth...39. Honeymoon Suite Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. the ceiling had a painting on it. in our room in France. so we were living underneath. some angels in a dance. my husband was not feeling well. and so we went to be...40. Horizon (There Is a Road) 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 w...41. I Never Wear White 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...42. If I Were A Weapon Oooh. 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 a...43. 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 hi...44. In The Eye If you were to kill me now right here. I would still look you in the eye. And I would burn myself into your memory. as long as you were still alive. I would live inside of you. I'd make you wear...45. Institution Green Institution green. The walls are cracked and dim. And we are standing in a line. Waiting for our faces to be seen. Institution green. Watch the floor and cound the hours. None will meet my eyes. Priva...46. Ironbound/Fancy Poultry In the ironbound section near Avenue L. where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell. the clouds so low the morning so slow. as the wires cut through the sky. The beams and bridges cut the lig...47. It Makes Me Wonder 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 untouche...48. Jacob and The Angel 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 m...49. Just Friends We're friends, that's all we are. and that's all we will become. It's understood. we're only friends. And it's better that way. for everyone concerned. So if you brush ag...50. Knight Moves 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...51. Language If language were liquid. It would be rushing in. Instead here we are. In a silence more eloquent. Than any word could ever be. These words are too solid. They don't move fast enough. To catch the...52. Last Year's Troubles Last year's troubles are so old fashioned. The robber on the highway the pirate on the seas. Maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining. The earrings and swashbuckling blouses that...53. Laying On Of Hands / Stoic 2 Mother Theresa understood the laying on of hands. What I often wonder is how she kept. From hearing love's demands. If in her loneliness she ever dreamed. Of following earthly commands, oh yeah....54. Left Of Center If you want me. You can find me. Left of center. Off of the strip. In the outskirts. In the fringes. In the corner. Out of the grip. When they ask me. "What are you looking at?". I always an...55. Lightning Lightning struck a while ago. And it's blazing much too fast. But give it rain of waiting time. And it will surely pass. Blow over. And it's happening so quickly. As I feel the flaming time....56. Lolita Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. Music by Suzanne Vega and Mitchell Froom. Lolita. Almost grown. Lolita. Go on home. Hey girl. Don't be a dog all your life. Don't beg for. Some little crumb of affect...57. Ludlow Street Love is the only thing that matters. Love is the only thing that's real. I know we hear this every day. It's still the hardest thing to feel. This time. When I go back to Ludlow Street, I fi...58. 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&...59. Machine Ballerina 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...60. 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...61. Men In A War Men in a war. If they've lost a limb. Still feel that limb. As they did before. He lay on a cot. He was drenched in a sweat. He was mute and staring. But feeling the thing. He had not. I know how...62. Men Will Be Men Men will be men and they'll call me the governor. I'll walk through the bar and I'll buy the next round. Because this is my ship and I say it's my destiny. And we'll all go up...63. My Favorite Plum Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. My favorite plum. hangs so far from me. See how it sleeps. and hear how it calls to me. See how the flesh. presses the skin, It must be bursting. with secrets withi...64. Neighborhood Girls "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...65. New York Is a Woman New York City spread herself before you. with her bangles and her spangles and her stars. you were impressed with the city so undressed. you had to go out cruising all the bars. your business trip ext...66. New York Is My Destination New York is my destination. New York is where I will be from. New York is made for grander things. Just. Like. Me. I will lunch at the Algonquin. Swing by the Plaza, waltz on in. The Three Arts Club...67. Night Song It's 2 o'clock this morning. every sane person is asleep. I wonder where you are tonight. and down whose hallways do you creep. I know you, you're out somewhere. you know you shouldn&ap...68. Night Vision By day give thanks. By night beware. Half the world in sweetness. The other in fear. When the darkness takes you. With her hand across your face. Don't give in too quickly. Find the thing she&apo...69. No Cheap Thrill Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. 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?....70. Not Me 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 afra...71. Obvious Question I am sitting over here. The line is safety drawn. The obvious question is. How long does this go on?. Alcohol danced upon his nerves. Played upon his skin. Made him mad inside. Broke everything within...72. One World (for One World One Voice) 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 fi...73. 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 I've found. *now what would...74. Pilgrimage This line is burning. Turning to ash as it hits the air. Every step is a day in the week. It's a Sunday or Monday. A march over months of the year. This life is burning. Turning to ash as it hits...75. Pornographer's Dream she's a pornographer's dream, he said. I knew what he meant. but it made me imagine: what kind of a dream. he would have, that hadn't been spent?. would he still dream of the thigh? of...76. Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands 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...77. Predictions Let's tell the future. Let's see how it's been done. By numbers. By mirrors. By water. By dots made at random on paper. By salt. By dice. By meal. By mice. By dough of cakes. By sac...78. Priscilla 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 pu...79. Private Goes Public Smile no smile. On this face today. Jerk like a thing on a string. And go join the parade. Code will keep your privacy in. It won't help to win friends. Influence strangers. Or otherwise be in th...80. Rock In This Pocket Excuse me. If I may. Turn your attention. My way. One moment. I won't plead. It isn't much. It's what I need. And what's so small to you. Is so large to me. If it's the last t...81. Room Off the Street Somewhere in a room. With a poster on a wall. Of a man with his hand. In a fist. Is a woman who's drinking. And her dress is so tight. You can see every breath. That she takes. Every sigh, every...82. Rosemary Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. Do you remember how you walked with me. down the street into the square?. How the women selling rosemary. pressed the branches to your chest, promised luck and all...83. Rusted Pipe Now the time has come to speak. I was not able. And water through a rusted pipe. Could make the sense that I do. Gurgle, mutter. Hiss, stutter. Moan the words like water. Rush and foam and choke. Havi...84. Salt Water 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. It's high and barren....85. Silver Bridge 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 nigh...86. 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 i...87. Soap And Water Soap and Water. Soap and water. wash 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 a line. scour it down in a wind of...88. Solitaire 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. Oth...89. 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 e...90. Some Journey 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 h...91. Song In Red and Grey 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 c...92. Song Of Sand 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...93. Song Of The Stoic 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...94. St. Clare 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...95. Stockings Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. 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 sl...96. Straight Lines 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 so...97. The Boulevardiers 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 ab...98. The Marching Dream 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 chil...99. The Queen And The Soldier 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....100. The Rent Song 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...101. The Silver Lady 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 aroun...102. Thin Man Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. 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...103. Those Whole Girls (Run In Grace) 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....104. 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....105. Tom's Diner 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 th...106. Tom's Diner (DNA Remix) 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 th...107. Tombstone Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. I like a tombstone cause it. weathers well. and if it stands or if it crumbles. only time will tell. if you carve my name in marble. you must cut it deep. there&apo...108. Unbound I knew a plant. whose roots were bound. and returned. into the ground. every day. I watched it grow. every day. it struggled so. roots were bound roots were bound. roots were bound into the ground. wa...109. Undertow 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 fre...110. We of Me My squeezed heart divides. Into two wide wings. The world is. A sudden place. If you don't. Belong to anything. Noah may have got it wrong. There's one more. That could belong. This must be...111. When Heroes Go Down When heroes go down. They go down fast. So don't expect any time to. Equivocate the past. When heroes go down. They land in flame. So don't expect any slow and careful. Settling of blame. I...112. Widow's Walk Consider me a widow boys, and I will tell you why, It's not the man, but it's the marriage that was drowned. So I walk the walk, and wait with watchful eye out to the sky, Looking for a kind...113. Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through) Too hot. No air. Loud fan and a big tin can. Wait here. Steer clear. They've gone to get your man. 10 AM. Through gate 3 with picture ID. This old billfold. Experiences security. I hear the cli...114. Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song) I came out of the darkness. Holding one thing. A small white wooden horse. I'd been holding inside. And when I'm dead. If you could tell them this. That what was wood became alive. What was...115. World Before Columbus Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega. 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 sig...116. Zephyr & I Zephyr & I stand out on. West End Avenue. talking about the things that. all of us used to do. and the wind kicks up with the smell of rain. the kids are gone but the souls remain. Zephyr and I so...