More songs by Suzanne Vega
Description
Executive Producer: Ronald K. Fierstein
Producer, Engineer: Steve Addabbo
Producer: Lenny Kaye
Co Producer: Mitch Easter
Engineer: Rod O'Brien
Mixing Engineer: Shelly Yakus
Composer Lyricist, Vocalist: Suzanne Vega
Lyrics and translation
Original
You come from far away with pictures in your eyes.
Of coffee shops and morning streets and the blue and silent sunrise.
But night is the cathedral where we recognize the sign.
We strangers know each other now as part of a whole design.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat. Oh.
You're the jester of this courtyard with a smile like a girl's.
Distracted by the women with the dimples and the curls.
By the pretty and the mischievous, by the timid and the blessed.
By the blowing skirts of ladies who promise to gather you to their breast.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat.
Oh.
You have hands of rain and water and that earring in your ear.
The wisdom on your face denies the number of your years.
With the fingers of the potter and the laughing tail of the fool.
The arranger of disorder with your strange and simple rules.
Yeah, now I've met me another spinner of strange and gauzy threads.
With a long and slender body and a bump upon the head.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat. Oh.
With a long and slender body and the sweetest, softest hands.
And we'll blow away forever soon and go on to different lands.
And please do not ever look for me, but with me, you will stay.
And you will hear yourself in song blowing by one day.
But now hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat.
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.
English translation
You come from far away with pictures in your eyes.
Of coffee shops and morning streets and the blue and silent sunrise.
But night is the cathedral where we recognize the sign.
We strangers know each other now as part of a whole design.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat. Oh.
You're the jester of this courtyard with a smile like a girl's.
Distracted by the women with the dimples and the curls.
By the pretty and the mischievous, by the timid and the blessed.
By the blowing skirts of ladies who promise to gather you to their breast.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat.
Oh.
You have hands of rain and water and that earring in your ear.
The wisdom on your face denies the number of your years.
With the fingers of the potter and the laughing tail of the fool.
The arranger of disorder with your strange and simple rules.
Yeah, now I've met me another spinner of strange and gauzy threads.
With a long and slender body and a bump upon the head.
Oh, hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat. Oh.
With a long and slender body and the sweetest, softest hands.
And we'll blow away forever soon and go on to different lands.
And please do not ever look for me, but with me, you will stay.
And you will hear yourself in song blowing by one day.
But now hold me like a baby that will not fall asleep.
Curl me up inside you and let me hear you through the heat.
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.