![]() Songs In Red And Gray (2001) [ larger cover art ] |
Consider me a widow, boys
And I will tell you why
It's not the man
But it's the marriage that was drowned
So I walk the walk
And wait with watchful eye up to the sky
Looking for a kind of vessel
I have never found
Though I saw it splinter
I keep looking out to sea
Like a dog with little sense
I keep returning
To the very area
Where I did see the thing go down
As if there's something at the site
I should be learning
That line is the horizon
We watch the wind and set the sail
But save ourselves when all omens
Point to fail
And if I tell the truth
Then I would have to tell you this
Though I grieve and I believe
I feel it truly
But I knew the ship was empty
By the time it hit the rocks
'Cause we could not hold on
When fate became unruly
So consider me a widow, boys
And I have told you why
Does the weather say
A better day is nearing?
I'll set my house in order now
And wait upon the will
'Cause it's clear that I need
Better skill in steering
That line is the horizon
We watch the wind and set the sail
But save ourselves when all omens
Point to fail
That line is the horizon
We watch the wind and set the sail
But save ourselves when all omens
Point to fail
Point to fail
Point to fail
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Jun 03, 2012 - 18:18 This song just makes me want to smile, everytime I hear it. |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 15:15 She has always radiated such sensuality and so effortlessly, amazing. well done, carry on. |
| EssexTex (Above and Beyond) | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 04:26 Beautiful voice |
| salzburg4321 (Salzburg, Austria) | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 10:49 Never knew she could groove like this! ![]() |
| ziakut (A place with air, water and chocolate.) | Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 20:15 A+ for the killer segway from Evergreen to Widow's Walk. That was just one of the best I've heard in a long while! Kudos Bill!! ![]() |
| anabel | Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 19:05 damn! now that's a segue! kudos to our esteemed host! |
| brookap (due south of Paradise) | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:54 RParadise wrote: So perfect, if I didn't know this song I would not have noticed. Makes three of us (ok, probably more than three). |
| RParadise (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:49 countyman wrote: Another seamless transition from Bill. Faithless' Evergreen to Suzanne Vegas' Widow's Walk. So perfect, if I didn't know this song I would not have noticed. |
| TerryS (The other SW) | Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 18:08 Really nice and her approval rating is about double that of Carla Bruni (the French public were polled today and Carla received 35% approval only). |
| Tjerome (West Lebanon, NH, USA) | Posted: Jan 15, 2011 - 11:47 countyman wrote: Another seamless transition from Bill. Faithless' Evergreen to Suzanne Vegas' Widow's Walk. It's thrilling to hear such segues! :-) |
| countyman (Pittsburgh) | Posted: Nov 13, 2010 - 07:06 Another seamless transition from Bill. Faithless' Evergreen to Suzanne Vegas' Widow's Walk. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: Oct 12, 2010 - 14:44 Cynaera wrote: Pretty much anything Suzanne Vega does will get at least an 8 from me - I've loved her music since "Luka" (and she laughingly confessed that the song was written about a teenage neighbor of hers named Luka, who was trying to score with a girl, so he told her he knew Suzanne Vega. I wonder, now, if he managed to get to home base with that girl, based on the fact that Vega was his neighbor...) Oh, the things one learns from now-defunct syndicated radio programs like "A View From the Front Porch." I'm with you on this....Loved her from the get go, and this CD is brilliant cover to cover.....the Joni of the 90's? |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 09, 2010 - 19:43 Pretty much anything Suzanne Vega does will get at least an 8 from me - I've loved her music since "Luka" (and she laughingly confessed that the song was written about a teenage neighbor of hers named Luka, who was trying to score with a girl, so he told her he knew Suzanne Vega. I wonder, now, if he managed to get to home base with that girl, based on the fact that Vega was his neighbor...) Oh, the things one learns from now-defunct syndicated radio programs like "A View From the Front Porch." |
| plaice3 | Posted: Aug 09, 2010 - 19:39 nigelr wrote: SV is just that little bit unique; audaciously talented. |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 02:21 SV is just that little bit unique; audaciously talented. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Dec 20, 2009 - 04:17 dumpa da dumpa da dumpa da,need a compressor here ! |
| plaice3 (Cape Cod) | Posted: Nov 29, 2009 - 18:20 I'm with you both. Suzanne Vega is extraordinary and this is an especially extraordinary song ... Josephine wrote: Suzanne is an extraordinary storyteller, and that lovely, distinct voice....ahhhhh bindi wrote: what she said! |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 11:20 Josephine wrote: Suzanne is an extraordinary storyteller, and that lovely, distinct voice....ahhhhh what she said! |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 11:26 ![]() |
| michaelgmitchell (Belleville, ON Canada) | Posted: Nov 15, 2008 - 14:11 PureGirl wrote: A simple song, a nice song. A simply nice song. Yes, I like that description. |
| remex62 | Posted: Sep 02, 2008 - 11:25 Excelsior wrote: Suzanne Vega: the definition of ho-hum.
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| bugleboy624 (Bluefield, WV) | Posted: Sep 02, 2008 - 11:12 slartibart_O wrote: ![]() Photoshop-ed. Either that or a double exposure. Not a true ghost picture. |
| Alifreckles50 (Frederick, MD) | Posted: Jul 12, 2008 - 05:26 haunting....love her voice |
| Excelsior | Posted: Jul 12, 2008 - 05:24 Suzanne Vega: the definition of ho-hum. |
| PureGirl (Sirius) | Posted: Jul 01, 2008 - 06:25 A simple song, a nice song. A simply nice song. |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 18:57 malamute69 wrote: Suzanne Vega should have a bronze statue somewhere.
Maybe she does. |
| tupicetti | Posted: Mar 28, 2008 - 19:52 wferrier wrote: I really like Suzzane Vega and especially like this album. I sometimes get tired of her negative attitudeagainst men.
Do you mean that there is something that (we men) could do to cheer her up and sway her in a different direction? besides, i do not find it necessarily negative. Anyway, what i do have to say is that this tune is a straight 8 for me. Love you Suzanne.... |
| slartibart_O (N29°57'-W97°34') | Posted: Feb 26, 2008 - 07:32 ![]() |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 20:14 Ah, the chorus really makes this song... soar |
| inindian (Ready to set sail) | Posted: Jan 20, 2008 - 23:28 YES..better sailing music |
| FlamingLotus (Austin, TX) | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 12:27 Josephine wrote: Suzanne is an extraordinary storyteller, and that lovely, distinct voice....ahhhhh
Yep! I originally heard a solo acoustic version of this, and I'm kinda stuck on that version. But awesome song, in any case! |
| (former member) (Land of the Long White Cloud) | Posted: Nov 24, 2007 - 00:52 Suzanne is an extraordinary storyteller, and that lovely, distinct voice....ahhhhh |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 19, 2007 - 02:31 NO. |
| sweettone | Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 07:30 Nice sense of alliteration with this song - she also takes a folk song theme and makes it epic. I normally don't like Suzanne Vega, but I have liked nearly everything y'all have played of hers. This one's a big thumbs up! |
| mfassett (Redwood City, CA) | Posted: Sep 01, 2007 - 18:28 wferrier wrote: I really like Suzzane Vega and especially like this album. I sometimes get tired of her negative attitudeagainst men.
I don't see it... I see her negative attitude about her ex on this record, but generally she seems fine with men. Certainly on her first few records, she had lots of nice things to say. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York) | Posted: Aug 01, 2007 - 08:18 I really like Suzzane Vega and especially like this album. I sometimes get tired of her negative attitudeagainst men. |
| alux (atop the pyramid) | Posted: Jun 14, 2007 - 23:19 Amen, SP. smackiepipe wrote: After giving Suzanne a musical pass for the last decade, I fell back in 'like' with her due to this great song. |
| allisonscola (wishing I was behind my piano) | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 11:40 New record coming out REALLY soon!!!! :) |
| Diamond_Dog (Round Equatorial Pound) | Posted: Apr 29, 2007 - 01:09 Ok you win, I like her! I've been holding out, but I concede right? An 8/10! Now can we get back to talking about David, please? |
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Mar 28, 2007 - 10:52 celadonstone wrote: I nominate inside Tom's Diner, wherever that is. I can see the want ad now: SEEKING SCULPTOR of a bronze Suzanne Vega statue. Statue must sit at a bar, reading funnies or pouring milk in her coffee. Its important she doesnt appear to be checking out the lady just outside hiking up her skirt and adjusting her stockings. Counter help has only half filled the cup of Suzanne's coffee, he is checking out a woman outside... Could be a movie. Scene 2? |
| Kerly (Estonia) | Posted: Mar 02, 2007 - 04:14 malamute69 wrote: Suzanne Vega should have a bronze statue somewhere.
:)) |
| Mari (île de lesvos) | Posted: Feb 25, 2007 - 05:00 Songs in Red And Grey is Great! or is it are? hmmmmm? |
| celadonstone (Southeast of the USA) | Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 11:49 Mari wrote: totally argree ...
...I nominate inside Tom's Diner, wherever that is. I can see the want ad now: SEEKING SCULPTOR of a bronze Suzanne Vega statue. Statue must sit at a bar, reading funnies or pouring milk in her coffee. Its important she doesnt appear to be checking out the lady just outside hiking up her skirt and adjusting her stockings. Counter help has only half filled the cup of Suzanne's coffee, he is checking out a woman outside... |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Jan 11, 2007 - 10:47 After giving Suzanne a musical pass for the last decade, I fell back in 'like' with her due to this great song. |
| auburntigerrich (Mesa, AZ) | Posted: Jan 01, 2007 - 14:12 That acoustic guitar makes this one. She's gotten better since the early stuff, eh? Neat cut. |
| Kerly (Estonia) | Posted: Dec 18, 2006 - 02:00 I guess I have to hear this song more to give it a 10. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Oct 20, 2006 - 15:33
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| Mari (why do all the country girls leave) | Posted: Jun 10, 2006 - 20:57 malamute69 wrote: Suzanne Vega should have a bronze statue somewhere. totally argree ... ... |
| luminousjune (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 22, 2006 - 13:07 I need this album. |
| malamute69 (Bridgend, UK) | Posted: May 22, 2006 - 12:44 Suzanne Vega should have a bronze statue somewhere. |





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