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Artist: Suzanne Vega
Suggested Track: Tom's Diner

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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo

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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo

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 the window
At somebody coming in

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"It is always nice to see you"
Says the man behind the counter
To the woman who has come in
She is shaking her umbrella

And I look the other way
As they are kissing their hellos
And I'm pretending not to see them
And instead I pour the milk

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I open up the paper
There's a story of an actor
Who had died while he was drinking
It was no one I had heard of

And I'm turning to the horoscope
And looking for the funnies
When I'm feeling someone watching me
And so I raise my head

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There's a woman on the outside
Looking inside, does she see me?
No she does not really see me
'Cause she sees her own reflection

And I'm trying not to notice
That she's hitching up her skirt
And while she's straightening her stockings
Her hair has gotten wet

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Oh, this rain it will continue through the morning
As I'm listening to the bells of the cathedral

I am thinking of your voice

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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo

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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
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Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo

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Suzanne Vega lyrics - 111 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Luka", "Tom's Diner", "Book Of Dreams".
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Suzanne Vega – Luka
Suzanne Vega already had success overseas with “Marlene on the Wall” from her first album and “Left Of Center” from the Pretty In Pink soundtrack, but “Luka”, the second single
Suzanne Vega – Tom's Diner
Vega originally wrote “Tom’s Diner” in 1982 and it found its first release in 1984 on a compilation. She was signed to A&M Records that same year and this track was then included
Felt – Suzanne Vega
(Slug) / I was sitting at the stoplight / In my car rolled down the windows / When this driver pulled on side of me / And offered me some indo / I told her that I didn't smoke
Suzanne Vega – Freeze Tag
“Freeze Tag” is the second song of Suzanne Vega’s debut record Suzanne Vega (1985). The song is built around childrens' play-metaphors, such as playgrounds and playing you’re an
Suzanne Vega – Undertow
[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2
Suzanne Vega – Penitent
[Verse 1] / Once I stood alone so proud / Held myself above the crowd / And now I'm low on the ground / From here I look around to see / What avenues belong to me / I can't tell
Suzanne Vega – Gypsy
[Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – Cracking
[Verse 1] / It's a one-time thing / It just happens a lot / Walk with me / And we will see what we have got / Ah, ah / [Verse 2] / My footsteps are ticking / Like water dripping
Suzanne Vega – Some Journey
[Verse 1] / If I had met you on some journey / Where would we be now? / If we had met on some eastbound train / Through some black sleeping town / Would you have worn your silken
Suzanne Vega – Calypso
[Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – Left of Center
[Chorus] / If you want me, you can find me / Left of center, off of the strip / In the outskirts and in the fringes / In the corner, out of the grip / If you want me, you can find
Suzanne Vega – Marlene on the Wall
[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / Other
Suzanne Vega – Neighborhood Girls
[Verse 1] / "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" / "
Suzanne Vega – Birth-Day (Love Made Real)
[Verse 1] / One thing I know / This pain will go / Step through all that's left to feel / Wait to meet my love made real / [Verse 2] / Don't move, don't touch / Don't talk so much
Suzanne Vega – Tombstone
[Intro] / Once more / One two three four / [Verse 1] / I like a tombstone 'cause it / Weathers well / And if it stands or if it crumbles / Only time will tell / And you can carve
Suzanne Vega – Headshots
[Verse 1] / 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 so sad and small / Strange the way a
Suzanne Vega – Caramel
[Verse 1] / It won't do / To dream of caramel / To think of cinnamon / And long for you / [Verse 2] / It won't do / To stir a deep desire / To fan a hidden fire / That can never
Suzanne Vega – Knight Moves
[Verse 1] / Watch while the queen in one false move / Turns herself into a pawn / Sleepy and shaken / And watching while the blurry night / Turns into a very clear dawn / [Chorus
DNA (Ft. Suzanne Vega) – Tom's Diner
British electronica duo DNA (Neil Slateford and Nick Batt) added music to Suzanne Vega’s acapella track “Tom’s Diner”, turning her ad-lib outro “Do do do do, do do-doo do” into the
Suzanne Vega – Honeymoon Suite
[Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – The Queen and the Soldier
“The Queen And The Soldier” has the familiar elements of chivalry, loyalty, betrayal of a ballad. Literally, a soldier is asking a queen to stop a war. She has him killed rather
Suzanne Vega – Solitude Standing
[Verse 1] / 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 / [
Suzanne Vega – In the Eye
[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / I
Suzanne Vega – World Before Columbus
[Verse 1] / 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 sight / [
Suzanne Vega – Bad Wisdom
[Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – Straight Lines
This is the story of a young woman’s transformation, perhaps from child to adult.
Suzanne Vega – 99.9 F°
“99.9 f° is the lead single from Suzanne Vega’s fourth studio album, of the same name. It was produced by Mitchell Froom, her future husband. The song reached #13 on Billboard’s US
Suzanne Vega – Language
[Verse 1] / If language were liquid / It would be rushing in / Instead here we are / In a silence more eloquent / Than any word could ever be / [Verse 2] / These words are too
Suzanne Vega – Stockings
The narrator has a crush on a woman who is alluded to be lesbian; the author has idle fantasies/daydreams (“threads of recent slumbers”) about her crush, however the other woman is
Suzanne Vega – Lolita
[Chorus] / Lolita / Almost grown / Lolita / Go on home / Lolita / Almost grown / Lolita / Go on home / [Verse 1] / Hey, girl / Don't be a dog all your life / Don't beg for / Some
Suzanne Vega – It Makes Me Wonder
[Verse 1] / The Virgin Mary on a chain / Has hit me in the mouth again / As we explore the carnal score / Of sacred and profane / [Verse 2] / Sulky boy won't drink his milk / So
Suzanne Vega – In Liverpool
[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / Except for the boy in the
Suzanne Vega – Pornographer's Dream
[Verse 1] / 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? / [Verse 2] / Would
Suzanne Vega – Predictions
[Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – Ironbound / Fancy Poultry
[Part I: Ironbound] / [Verse 1] / 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
Suzanne Vega – My Favorite Plum
[Verse 1] / 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 within
Suzanne Vega – Rosemary
Rosemary, meaning like the herb. And it’s basically a song about wishing to be remembered which is, I think, a rather fitting way to end a retrospective. Suzanne Discusses Tried
Suzanne Vega – Small Blue Thing
“Small Blue Thing” is taken from Suzanne Vega’s self-titled debut record (1985) and explores an uneasy relationship via the extended metaphor of a small, vulnerable item.
Suzanne Vega – No Cheap Thrill
Suzanne Vega’s “Nine Objects of Desire” was released in 1996. The objects in question include from men, women, food, death, risk and family.
Suzanne Vega – Unbound
[Verse 1] / I knew a plant whose roots were bound / And then returned into the ground / Every day I watched it grow / Every day it struggled so / [Chorus] / Roots were bound, the
Suzanne Vega – Widow's Walk
[Verse 1] / 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 up to the
Suzanne Vega – When Heroes Go Down
[Verse 1] / When heroes go down / They go down fast / So don't expect any time to / Equivocate the past / [Verse 2] / When heroes go down / They land in flame / So don't expect any
Suzanne Vega – Thin Man
[Verse 1] / 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 these
Suzanne Vega – Rusted Pipe
[Verse 1] / 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 and mutter / Hiss and stutter / Moan the
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Nine Objects of Desire by Suzanne Vega
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Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega
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Beauty & Crime by Suzanne Vega
Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album release by New York-based singer/songwriter and musician Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001’s Songs in Red
Songs in Red and Gray by Suzanne Vega
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