Suzanne Vega Quotes

"I've watched your palace up here on the hill And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
Only first I am asking you why.

By day give thanks
By night beware
Half the world in sweetness
The other in fear

I have swallowed a secret burning thread.

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

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 blur in the brain
That flies by and is gone.

You're 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

Travel, arrival
Years of an inch and a step toward a source
I'm coming to you
I'll be there in time

I'd like to meet you
In a timeless, placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences
...And we'll sit in the silence (That flies by and is gone)
That comes rushing in
And is gone

The light and sweet coffee color of her skin

Those whole girls...
Breathe with ease
Need no mercy
Move in light
Run in grace

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

I won't march again on your battlefield.

I open up the paper, there's the story of an actor who had died while he was drinking, it was no one I had heard of.

They only hit until you cry, After that, you don't ask why.

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