Suzanne Vega

Fall and all attendant memories

Crowd the day with unrelated histories

Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies

To hang around each corner

Hang around each street.

Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitries

Carrying words as strangers exchange pleasantries

Do they intrude upon your private reveries

As they meet you on each corner

Meet you on each street.

Watch for daily braveries

Notice newfound courtesies

Finger sudden legacies

As they clean up every corner

Wash down every street.

Mark the month and all its anniversaries

Put away the draft of all your eulogies

Clear the way for all your private memories

As they meet you on each corner

Meet you on every street.

Make the time for all your possibilities.

They live on every street

Comments

9 years ago

Scott Hefler

I get teared-up EVERY time I play this song.

10 years ago

s e y l a cecylia

,,stwórz czas dla wszystkich swoich możliwości'

10 years ago

Michal Pišl

Did you know that a third tower fell on 9-11?

11 years ago

keebearfull

Read the poetry apart from the music. Haunting. It puts you on the streets. . . again. THOSE streets, not these we walk today. I'll not walk from here to there, look over, look up. And not hear these words, haunting me. Meeting me on every corner, whispering along each street. Thanks for the song [and post] Suzanne.

12 years ago

hidalgo699

Such a beautiful track. Thanks for posting

12 years ago

kerrgal

I just discovered this one, wow, this is more evocative and it's me harder than "It Hits Home".

13 years ago

klarams

Pour tous ces Bordeaux/Paris ; Paris/Bordeaux ...Just remember me...

13 years ago

gui3500

Long time.. WTC were there

14 years ago

AtaraxiaFromFrance

World Trade Center :'(... What a fucking terrorists !...