Album Name

Retrospective: The Best Of Suzanne Vega

Artist

Suzanne Vega

Genre

POP

Release Date

2003.04.22

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

Solitude Standing - 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 afternoon
And she turns to me
with her hand extended
Her palm is split
with a flower 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
and 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
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
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