"Gypsy" lyrics

"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

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 tale 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


Writer(s): Suzanne Vega
album: "Solitude Standing" (1987)
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing album cover
Tom’s Diner (Reprise)
(Instrumental)
You May Also Like
Janis Ian - "In The Winter" The days are okay I watch the TV in the afternoon If I get lonely The sound of other voices, other rooms Are near to me, I'm not afraid The operator, she tells the time It's good for a laugh There's...
Jennifer Warnes - "Ballad Of A Runaway Horse" Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away She'll walk till she finds him her darlin' her stray But the river's in flood and the roads are awash And the bridges break up in the panic of loss....
Jefferson Airplane - "Triad" You want to know how it will be Me and him OR you and me You both stand there your long hair flowing Your eyes alive your mind still growing Saying to me--"What can we do now that we both love you",...
Dido - "Quiet Times" You ask me where I go tonight, I'll go back to today last year When me and you had to make each other happy and there was hope with everything It's hard enough to feel the world as it is and hold on...
Eels - "P.S. You Rock My World" I was at a funeral the day I realized I wanted to spend my life with you Sitting down on the steps at the old post office The flag was flying at half-mast And I was thinkin' 'bout how everyone is...