suzanne vega

99.9F

luka

night vision

solitude standing

tom's dinner

world before columbus


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 burning
99.9 Fahrenheit degrees

Pale as a candle
And your face is hot
And if I touch you
I might get what you've got

You seem to me
Like a man
On the verge of running
99.9 Fahrenheit degrees

Something cool
Against the skin
Is what you could be
Something cool
Against the skin
Is what you
Could be needing

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees

You seem to me
Like a man
On the verge of burning
99.9 Fahrenheit degrees

Something cool
Against the skin
Is what you could be
Something cool
Against your skin
Is what you
Could be needing

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees
99.9 Fahrenheit degrees




 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

luka


My name is Luka
I live on the second f___
I live u____ from you
Yes I think you've s___ me before

If you h__r something late at night
Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight
Just don't a__ me what it was
Just don't ask me what it w__
Just don't ask me what it was

I think it's because I'm c___
I try not to talk too l___
Maybe it's because I'm c___
I try not to act too p___


They only hit until you c___
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't a____ anymore
You just don't a____ anymore
You just don't a____ anymore


Yes I think I'm okay
I w_____ into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your b_____ anyway
I g___ I'd like to be a____
With nothing b____, n______ thrown

Just don't a___ me h__ I am
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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's erased

Find the line, find the shape
Through the grain
Find the outline, things will
Tell you their name

The table. the guitar
The empty glass

All will blend together when
Daylight has passed

Find the line, find the shape
Through the grain
Find the outline, things will
Tell you their name

Now I watch you falling into sleep
Watch your fist curl against the sheet
Watch your lips fall open and your eyes dim
In blind faith

I would shelter you
Keep you in light
But I can only teach you
Night vision
Night vision
Night vision

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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 extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we've met

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
And she says "I've come to lighten this dark heart"
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

I turn to the crowd as they're watching
They're sitting all together in the dark in the warm
I wanted to be in there among them
I see how their eyes are gathered into one

And then she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
And she says"l've come to lighten this dark heart"
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we've met

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

tom's dinerlisten to the song

I am sitting
In the morning
At the d___
On the c____

I am w____
At the c____
For the man
To p___ the coffee

And he f__ it
Only h____
And before
I even a___

He is l____
Out the w_____
At somebody
Coming in

"It is a____
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the c____

To the woman
Who has come in
She is s_____
Her u_____

And I look
The other w____
As they are k____
Their hellos

I'm p_____
Not to see them
I_____
I p___ the milk

I open
Up the p____
There's a story
Of an actor

Who had d___
While he was d_____
It was no one
I had h____ of

And I'm t____
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies

When I'm feeling
Someone w_____ me
And so
I raise my head

There's a woman
On the o____
Looking i____
Does she s___ me?

No she does not
Really see me
Cause she s__
Her own r______

And I'm t____
Not to n_____
That she's hitching
Up her s___

And while she's
Straightening her s______
Her hair
Is getting w__

Oh, this rain
It will c_____
T___ the morning
As I'm l______

To the bells
Of the c____l
I am t_____
Of your v____...

And of the m_____ picnic
Once u___ a t___
Before the rain b___...

I finish up my c____
It's time to c____ the t___




 

 



 

 

 

 

 

world before columbus

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

If your life were taken from me
All the trees would freeze in this cold ground
It would be as cruel as the world before Columbus
Sail to the edge and I'd be there looking down

Those men who lust for land
And for riches strange and new
Who love those trinkets of desire
Oh they never will have you

And they'll never know the gold
Or the copper in your hair
How could they weigh the worth
Of you so rare

If your love were taken from me
Every light that's bright would soon go dim
It would be as dark as the world before Columbus
Down the waterfall and I'd swim over the brim

Those men who lust for land
And for riches strange and new
Who love those trinkets of desire
Oh they will never have you

And they'll never know the gold
Or the copper in your hair
How could they weigh the worth
Of you so rare