Biography:
Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega on 11 July 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American singer-songwriter noted for her eclectic folk-inspired music. Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: " Luka" and "Tom's Diner".
Though born in California, Vega has lived most of her life in New York City. There, she attended the High School of the Performing Arts (the school seen in the feature film musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.
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Other songs:
- Marlene On The Wall
- Tom's Diner
- Angels Doorway
- Bad Wisdom
- Caramel
- Fools Complaint
- Frank Ava
- Frank Eva
- Freeze Tag
- Gypsy
- I Never Wear White
- In Liverpool
- Ironboundfancy Poultry
- Knight Moves
- Language
- Left Of Center
- Luka
- New York Is A Woman
- Night Vision
- Ny Is A Woman
- Penitent
- Pornographers Dream
- Queen And The Soldier
- Rock In This Pocket
- Rosemary
- Small Blue Thing
- Solitude Standing
- Songs In Red And Gray
- Straight Lines
- The Man Who Played God
- Toms Diner
- Undertow
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Album: "Tried and True: The Best of Suzanne Vega" (1998)
[Verse 1]
F#m D
Do you remember when you walked with me
E D
Down the street into the square
F#m D
How the women selling rosemary
E D
Pressed the branches to your chest
Promised luck and all the rest
E D
Put their fingers in your hair
[Verse 2]
F#m D
I had met you just the day before
E D
Like an accident of fate
F#m D
In the window there behind your door
E D
How I wanted to break in
To that room beneath your skin
E D
But all that would have to wait
[Chorus]
F#m
In the Carmen of the Martyrs
D
With the statues in the courtyard
G
Whose heads and hands were taken
A
In the burden of the sun
F#m
I had come to meet you
D
With a question in my footsteps
G
I was going up the hillside
A
And the journey just begun
[Verse 3]
F#m D
My sister says she never dreams at night
E D
There are days when I know why
F#m D
Those possibilities within her sight
E D
With no way of coming true
Cause some things just don't get through
E D
Into this world although they try
[Chorus]
F#m
In the Carmen of the Martyrs
D
With the statues in the courtyard
G
Whose heads and hands were taken
A
In the burden of the sun
F#m
I had come to meet you
D
With a question in my footsteps
G
I was going up the hillside
A
And the journey just begun
[Outro]
F#m D G
And all__ I know__ of you__
A
Is in my memory__
F#m D G
And all__ I ask__ is you__
A
Remember me__
[Verse 1]
F#m D
Do you remember when you walked with me
E D
Down the street into the square
F#m D
How the women selling rosemary
E D
Pressed the branches to your chest
Promised luck and all the rest
E D
Put their fingers in your hair
[Verse 2]
F#m D
I had met you just the day before
E D
Like an accident of fate
F#m D
In the window there behind your door
E D
How I wanted to break in
To that room beneath your skin
E D
But all that would have to wait
[Chorus]
F#m
In the Carmen of the Martyrs
D
With the statues in the courtyard
G
Whose heads and hands were taken
A
In the burden of the sun
F#m
I had come to meet you
D
With a question in my footsteps
G
I was going up the hillside
A
And the journey just begun
[Verse 3]
F#m D
My sister says she never dreams at night
E D
There are days when I know why
F#m D
Those possibilities within her sight
E D
With no way of coming true
Cause some things just don't get through
E D
Into this world although they try
[Chorus]
F#m
In the Carmen of the Martyrs
D
With the statues in the courtyard
G
Whose heads and hands were taken
A
In the burden of the sun
F#m
I had come to meet you
D
With a question in my footsteps
G
I was going up the hillside
A
And the journey just begun
[Outro]
F#m D G
And all__ I know__ of you__
A
Is in my memory__
F#m D G
And all__ I ask__ is you__
A
Remember me__
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