 Genius Meanings
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Suzanne Vega – New York Is a Woman
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[Verse 1] / New York City spread herself before you / With her bangles and her spangles and her stars / You were impressed / With the city so undressed / Had to go out cruising all
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Suzanne Vega – Luka
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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
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Suzanne Vega – Tom's Diner
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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
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Suzanne Vega – Thin Man
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[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
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Suzanne Vega – The Man Who Played God
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[Verse 1] / Ah / Think about the world you know / Ah / Now think of where it wants to go / [Chorus] / All things you can see around you / You can change them / Rearrange them in
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SOFI TUKKER – Summer In New York
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[Intro] / Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da / Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da / [Verse 1] / I've got no destination / And I'm sipping on my tea / I've got all day long / Just to walk down the
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Suzanne Vega – Ironbound / Fancy Poultry (Acoustic Version)
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[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
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Suzanne Vega – Neighborhood Girls
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[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" / "
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Suzanne Vega – Bound
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[Verse 1] / The way of the world / Has taken its toll / Ravaged my body / And bitten my soul / [Verse 2] / I'm ruined by rain / Weathered by wind / Been invaded / Without and
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Suzanne Vega – Rock in This Pocket (Song of David)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / And what's so small to you / Is so
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Suzanne Vega – Edith Wharton's Figurines
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Suzanne Vega – As You Are Now
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / I will treasure all your
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Suzanne Vega – Frank & Ava
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[Verse 1] / On the way to the bidet / Is when the trouble used to start / It didn't mean she wasn't queen / Of the tinderbox that was his heart / Her fire, his desire / Meant that
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Suzanne Vega – Ludlow Street
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / This time
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Suzanne Vega – Luka (en Español)
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[Intro] / One two / One two three / [Verso 1] / Me llamo Luka / El niño del piso dos / Con mis padres vivo yo / Tal vez conoces ya mi voz / [Coro] / Si oyes ruidos en la noche
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Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne
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Marianne is Marianne Ihlen, ex-wife of the Norwegian author Axel Jensen, who was a friend of Leonard. Leonard lived with Marianne in Greece together, in the 1960s, after Axel
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Suzanne Vega – Zephyr & I
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[Verse 1] / Zephyr and I stand out on West End Avenue / Talking about the things that all of us used to do / [Chorus] / And the wind kicks up with the smell of rain / And the kids
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Suzanne Vega – Pornographer's Dream
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[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
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Bob Dylan – Blowin' in the Wind
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“Blowin' in the Wind” is Bob Dylan’s first single of his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
In this song, Dylan poses a list of hypothetical questions; questions people may
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Suzanne Vega – Cracking (1982)
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[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
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Nessa Barrett – tired of california
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“tired of california” finds Nessa reflecting on the toxic lifestyle of the Golden State and longing to leave. The chorus interpolates a popular melody from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s
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50 Cent (Ft. Olivia) – Candy Shop
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A classic club or love song all about getting that special someone back to the crib and getting hot and heavy, the lyrics are fuelled with sexual innuendo. Such innuendos including
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