I'll never be your Maggie May The one you loved and left behind The face you see in light of day Then you cast away That isn't me in that bed you'll find I'd r...

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 Diagnost...

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...

999 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 Li...

999 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 li...

999 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 Li...

999 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 Li...

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 A...

Fall in all attendant memories Crowd the day with unrelated histories Each year leaves it's unresolving fantasies That hang around each corner Hang around each ...

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 s...

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 ...

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...

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 so much Strip and ...

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 so much strip and ...

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 ...

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 al...

Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega What's that they told you about a book & a cover? Don't judge so quickly, Is it too much too remember? 'Cause pictures lie, you ...

Suzanne Vega/Suzanne Vega & Anton Sanko 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 win...

The way of the world Has taken it's 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 a...

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 H...

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...

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 back your sympathy I do not ne...

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...

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...

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 Finan...

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 wit...

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 ...

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 ...

Suzanne Vega 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 d...

In the ashes of the time Burned away Burned away 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 ...

you come from far away whit pictures in your eyes of coffeshop and morning streets, in the blue and silent sunrise, but night is the cathedral,where we recogniz...

Suzanne Vega 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 Whe...

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...

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...

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...

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 Diagnost...

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 Diagnost...

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 i...

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 ...

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 s...

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 s...

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 ben...

Suzanne Vega 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 da...

Suzanne Vega If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be Words are too solid The...

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 swash...

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 look...

if you want me, you can find me left of the center off of the strip in the outskirts,in the fringers in the corner out of the grip when they ask me "what are yo...

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 b...

Suzanne Vega 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 kin...

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 ...

Suzanne Vega "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 w...

Suzanne Vega "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 w...

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...

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 q...

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 robe...

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...

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...

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...

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 d...

"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 dr...

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 d...

Suzanne Vega Let's tall 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...

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 t...

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 st...

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 ...

Suzanne Vega/Suzanne Vega & Anton Sanko 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 i...

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 y...

Suzanne Vega/Suzanne Vega & Anton Sanko 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, m...

Suzanne Vega 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 yo...

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...

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 two...

Suzanne Vega 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 ...

Suzanne Vega 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 yo...

The reproach in 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 ...

The reproach in 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 ...

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 ...

The reproach in 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 ...

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...

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 t...

Suzanne Vega 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 ...

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 o...

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 B...

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 B...

Suzanne Vega 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...

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 eve...

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 ev...

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'll b...

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 ev...

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 Roo...

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 caref...

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 t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 woo...