Suzanne Vega - Man in a War & Luka, Live

My name is Luka
I'm from Paducah!

Well I reckon it's shit hot.....
A cracking acoustic version..(couldn't be bad though?..bearing in mind the original is not far off....)...
Vega does it for me...I even listen to the lyrics for once!

I just love this acoustic version. Suzanne's voice is just amazing. No surprise it was used to fine-tune the MP3 compression algorithms.

After seeing how they slammed this on VH1, it just makes me laugh now.

I've always liked this song quite a lot - hits a very personal nerve from days at the head of middle school classroom. The initial smile the song brings out fades gracefully as the words sink in. Not the burn some painful music creates, but a soft melting of anything cynical.

Now she adds a simpler acoustic take and I've added daughters to my life. Kinda hard to go to this place while sitting in the office trying to churn out some code.

I remember when this song came out, people were upset because they thought there was something wrong with someone who sang about such troubling subject matter. After that everyone thought Suzanne Vega was "weird".

one of the few songs about battered women... kinda wierd with the upbeat melody and guitar riffs, but that's what catches folks' attention...