Gypsy

You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffee shops and morning streets
In the blue and silent sunrise
But night is the cathedral
Where we recognized the sign
We strangers know each other now
As part of the whole design

And now hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you
Feel the heat

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

Hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you
Feel the heat

Your hands are running water
And that earring in your ear
The wisdom on your face denies
The number of your years
With the fingers of a potter
And the laughing tale of a fool
The arranger of disorder
With your strange and simple rules

And now I’ve found me another spinner
Of strange and gauzy threads
With a long and slender body
And a bump upon yer head

Hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you
Feel the heat

With a long and slender body
And the sweetest, softest hands
And you’ll go away forever now
Go on to different lands
And please do not ever look for me
For 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
Feel the heat

----- Gypsy, Suzanne Vega


Vega is a goddess. I love each, single line of this song. It is perfect.