 The Best Of Suzanne Vega (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
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If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, off of the strip
In the outskirts
And in the fringes
In the corner, out of the grip
If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, off of the strip
In the outskirts
And in the fringes
In the corner, out of the grip
When they ask me, "What are you looking at?"
I always answer, "Nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that
I'm looking at them
I think they think I must be out of touch
But I'm only in the outskirts
And in the fringes
On the edge and, off the avenue
And if you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering about you
I think that somehow, somewhere inside of us
We must be similar, if not the same
So I continue
To be wanting you
Left of center, against the grain
And if you want me
You can find me
Left of center, off of the strip
In the outskirts
And in the fringes
In the corner, out of the grip
And when they ask me, "What are you looking at?"
I always answer, "Nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that, I'm looking at them
I think they think I must be, out of touch
But I'm only in the outskirts
And in the fringes
On the edge and
Off the avenue
And if you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering about you
Wondering about you
If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering about you
If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering about you
Wondering about you
Wondering about you
If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering
If you want me
You can find me
Left of center, wondering about you
Wondering about you
Wondering about you
| bluecshells (EARTH) | Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 13:10 Great tune! Improved my mood for sure! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 19:52 Suzanne Vega - Left Of Center & Gipsy, Live "I like her haircut, and her dancing. I also like this version of Left of Center better than the studio one. The guitar is way sicker!" svengali691 |
| Lazaerus (Valley of the Giants - Oregon) | Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 13:17 Cynaera wrote: I love this song, though. And Suzanne Vega looks a lot like Mary Stuart Masterson in "Benny and Joon" in this picture. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled music flow, already in progress.  I thought the same... the cover looks a lot like Mary Stuart Masterson! Absolutely loved that movie!! Now I'm going to have to dig it out of the archives and watch it again... and thats a GOOD thing! ~Thanks Cynaera |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 07:56 RadioDoc wrote: Pretty damn good for pushin' 50. Or 40 for that matter. I've liked this one since it's movie days. 8. bump |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 14:19 drews wrote: not smart to sing about 'fringes' when sporting a ginger fringe like that I love this song, though. And Suzanne Vega looks a lot like Mary Stuart Masterson in "Benny and Joon" in this picture. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled music flow, already in progress. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Nov 26, 2010 - 14:05 Jimmy86 wrote: I hadn't heard this song before. Pretty nice! I had to look it up, when I saw a post that it was on Pretty in Pink. In my Billboard book, it is credited to Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson.  I don't think I heard a 2nd voice, and now the song's over. Is this a new version without Joe? Or did he merely play piano? Any info, anyone?Pretty in Pink - I think one of the very best motion picture soundtracks, Hughes was such a genius in his own right as a director, but what freakin good taste in music he had. |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 05:10 not smart to sing about 'fringes' when sporting a ginger fringe like that |
| frecko (Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe) | Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 05:54 A good one from ms.Vega! |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: May 19, 2010 - 13:54 parrothead wrote: This is good, to clever for her writing style, must be some one else that wrote this. I don't have the liner notes at the moment. Or Google, even. Wikipedia credits Suzanne Vega and Joe Jackson. That took me about...oh, 1 minute to find, maybe? |
| Albert1967 (Leusden, the Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 05:26 Love Suzanne Vega. Poster on my boysroom wall. |
| Susan_Ssun | Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 15:12 I've always liked Suzanne Vega's style. Not too crazy about this song, but she definately has influenced a lot of young singer/songwriters. I recall my own initial response to her vocal style, which was, " Hey, I think I can do that"! Then I bought a new guitar, and that was the first day of my new life as a singer/songwriter. |
| parrothead (could be anywhere in the great USA) | Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 15:06 This is good, to clever for her writing style, must be some one else that wrote this. I don't have the liner notes at the moment. |
| FerrariF1Fan | Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 15:03 ugh! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| ugly (Compton, CA) | Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 19:23 this doesn't knock my socks off. 5. |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 08:58 apressman wrote: Such a pretty voice... such an ugly girl!   You are a dick. |
| newwavegurly | Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 20:34 Someone told me that this song reminds them of me. I'm not quite sure if I see that as a good or bad thing.  |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 15:10 bugleboy624 wrote: Yes, so do I. Pretty damn good for pushin' 50. Or 40 for that matter. I've liked this one since it's movie days. 8. |
| Marley (Portland, Or) | Posted: Jan 31, 2009 - 01:09 Brings back memories of high school.... |
| betsyroks (uk leicester) | Posted: Oct 28, 2008 - 06:11 hello again suzanne.you rock |
| Jimmy86 (CA) | Posted: Sep 26, 2008 - 14:37 I hadn't heard this song before. Pretty nice! I had to look it up, when I saw a post that it was on Pretty in Pink. In my Billboard book, it is credited to Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson. I don't think I heard a 2nd voice, and now the song's over. Is this a new version without Joe? Or did he merely play piano? Any info, anyone? |
| amaynard | Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 08:53 usually like her stuff, but this is so  |
| bugleboy624 (Bluefield, WV) | Posted: Jul 22, 2008 - 12:34 CarpePotus wrote: I like the new noir look...
Yes, so do I. |
| mutepoint | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 10:19 Really like her understated voice. Verrry nice. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 10:18 How young she sounds on this song--very much like Jane Siberry of that era. Compare with the maturity of Beauty and Crime. |
| komainu (Iowa City, IA) | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 10:18 Would be a 10 if it was a live version.  |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Feb 18, 2008 - 22:41 laozilover wrote: RETROSPECTIVE?!?
 Is her career over?!? Makes you want to take a red pen to the album cover and write "word usage," doesn't it? |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: Dec 29, 2007 - 08:01 Ugly?
 I don't think so. |
| CarpePotus (Connecticut) | Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 10:42 I like the new noir look...
|
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 10:32 Look at any other album cover. That picture is atrocious.
...all of her recent publicity photographs are unflattering, i suspect by design, stark realism... |
| Arianrhod | Posted: Jun 12, 2007 - 13:03 laozilover wrote: Such a pretty voice... such an ugly girl! what are you, nuts?!? "What's the ugliest part of your body? I think it's your mind!" ~Frank Zappa Look at any other album cover. That picture is atrocious |
| mfassett (Redwood City, CA) | Posted: May 12, 2007 - 10:06 CoYoT51 wrote: I
 her!!!!
Too bad I'm married... I guess so is she, though... :o) THX, RP! Not anymore I don't think... |
| coccyx (The geese are back) | Posted: Apr 10, 2007 - 15:52 *mute* see you in a few... |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: Mar 10, 2007 - 08:57 apressman wrote: Such a pretty voice... such an ugly girl!  what are you, nuts?!?
~Frank Zappa |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: Mar 10, 2007 - 08:53 RETROSPECTIVE?!? Is her career over?!? |
| CoYoT51 (Reims, FRANCE) | Posted: Feb 22, 2007 - 18:03 I her!!!!
Too bad I'm married... I guess so is she, though... :o) THX, RP! |
| Mari (île de lesvos) | Posted: Feb 22, 2007 - 18:00 dwhayslett wrote: Sometimes music touches you in ways words can't express. Anyway, if you were serious, you would have triple-dog dared him.   |
| Kornmann (New York, NY) | Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 06:15 Love the piano playing by Joe Jackson |
| tonks | Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 06:15 SV. Well certainly virtuous & serious (if in a slightly self conscious manner) but always leaves me feeling rather underwhelmed!! |
| cattgirl813 (All over the place and staying put) | Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 06:13 I have to go and dig out my "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack now. This was one of many good songs on it. |
| dwhayslett (SC) | Posted: Jan 23, 2007 - 14:55 Essbee wrote: Bill, I DARE you to remove the option for emoticons, so that people who have nothing to say (or are too lazy to say anything) won't take up space on these comments pages.
Sometimes music touches you in ways words can't express. Anyway, if you were serious, you would have triple-dog dared him. |
| zipper (the double z) | Posted: Jan 23, 2007 - 14:54 tedious and mindlessly repetitive. opposite of a 10. |
| zensend (Minnesota, USA (a blue state!)) | Posted: Dec 10, 2006 - 23:27 Ms. Vega does seem to sound the same, most of the time. She also puts out a song here and there that keeps me on her side. This is one. oh... and that comment about her being " an ugly girl" (Apressman)- pretty damn ugly comment and way wrong. I think she's very pretty - not that that is what we're about here. |
| algrif (Slightly west of Zero) | Posted: Oct 28, 2006 - 03:27 juliecb wrote: We're all ugly on the inside. It is what is on the outside that matters. You can't judge a book by its contents. Afterall, beauty is in the eye of the belittler.
BTW eastcoast; It's just you. |
| juliecb (Columbus, OH) | Posted: Oct 13, 2006 - 12:20 apressman wrote: Such a pretty voice... such an ugly girl!
We're all ugly on the inside. It is what is on the outside that matters. You can't judge a book by its contents. Afterall, beauty is in the eye of the belittler. |
| eastcoast | Posted: Oct 13, 2006 - 12:10 IS it me or do all Susan Vega songs sound the same? |
| Mari (upclose'n'personal) | Posted: Sep 28, 2006 - 20:08       |
| slartibart_O (nw corner in austin) | Posted: Aug 30, 2006 - 13:30 Essbee wrote: Bill, I DARE you to remove the option for emoticons, so that people who have nothing to say (or are too lazy to say anything) won't take up space on these comments pages.  |
| supergroverx (Los Angeles) | Posted: Aug 30, 2006 - 13:26 man did i freak out the first time i heard this song--sixth grade, i think. been a personal theme song for a very long time. still, to my mind, the best song she ever did. 10. |
| bugleboy624 (Princeton, WV) | Posted: Apr 22, 2006 - 12:06 My theme song! |
| Megahertz (Nashville, TN) | Posted: Jan 26, 2006 - 04:05 Don't be an angry anti-emoticonist! |