Álbum Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles de Suzanne Vega - Canciones
Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
2014 | 
Estilo(s) | Folk Rock
Sello | Cooking Vinyl
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- Crack In The WallVer letra 4:24
Composición: Suzanne VegaMúsicos invitados: Larry Campbell (Banjo), Larry Campbell (Mandolin), Gail Ann Dorsey (Bass), Doug Yowell (Drums), Zachary Alford (Drums), Zachary Alford (Percussion), Ed McEntee (Recorded By), Michael Tudor (Recorded By), Suzanne Vega (Acoustic Guitar)[X]A crack appeared inside a wall,letra de Crack In The Wall
A door sprang up around it.
Each of these so finely drawn
I could not believe I found it.
A wildish wind blew it open wide,
My childish mind followed on outside,
And so I found myself among
My hearts delight surrounded.
A world of wonder lay without,
It was all of nature’s calling.
With field and forest, clouds and sun
Cascades of salt water falling.
Heights and valleys, dark ravines
Ivy thick and wild, deep and thorny scenes,
And yet each thing did love its place
In the lap of all of nature’s sprawling.
And so and so it goes.
I asked the one whose land this was
If I might have a token
To take with me back to the other side
To have and to keep unspoken.
I asked three times and was thrice denied.
I asked again without my pride
And found I’d lost that world I’d lived
Returned as one now broken,
To a crumb, a rag, a withered leaf
In the chilly winds of cold relief
I knew myself as I had been,
As from a dream awoken.
And so and so it goes.
But then… a crack appeared inside a wall
And a door sprang up around it. - Fool's Complaint 2:40
Composición: Suzanne VegaArreglos: Gerry LeonardMúsicos invitados: Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Harmonium), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Catherine Russell (Backing Vocals), Gail Ann Dorsey (Bass), Zachary Alford (Drums), Zachary Alford (Percussion), Larry Campbell (Mandolin), Michael Tudor (Recorded By), Suzanne Vega (Acoustic Guitar) - I Never Wear WhiteVer letra 3:08
Músicos invitados: Tony Levin (Bass), Jay Bellerose (Drums), Jay Bellerose (Percussion), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Kevin Killen (Recorded By), Michael Harris (10) (Recorded By)[X]I never wear whiteletra de I Never Wear White
White is for virgins
Children in summer
Brides in the park.
My color is black black black
Black is for secrets
Outlaws and dancers
For the poet of the dark.
Black is the truth
Of my situation.
And for those of my station
In life. All other colors
Lie.
I never wear white
White is too blinding
Always reminding
Of the innocent who fall
My color is black black black
For the crone, and the bastard
The schoolgirl in uniform
The servant in the hall.
Black is the truth
Of my situation,
And for those of my station
In life. All other colors
Lie.
My color is black black black
Like the gangster and widow
It’s the shade and the shadow
It’s the depth into your eye
My color is black black black black black - Portrait Of The Knight Of WandsVer letra 4:19
Músicos invitados: Doug Yowell (Drums), Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Bass), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Suzanne Vega (Guitar), Michael Tudor (Recorded By)[X]He stood upon the lastletra de Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands
Bastions of the place
Looked out on the ruins
With thunder in his face
An introverted spectacle
In the flowers on the rocks
The daisies on the ramparts
Blowing free
His heart was divided
Clouds gathered in the sky
The belfry made of wood and steel
Was silenced in it’s cry
Something must have happened
What, he wouldn’t say
But shown within
The wider lens of history
[Chorus:]
His mission the transmission
Of technology
One cannon trained upon the church
This one caught his eye
“to keep the bishop in his place”
He muttered with a sigh
His mood was melancholy
His attitude severe
His inner burden
Weighed upon him mightily
A bird as never seen in books
Flew in overhead
A kind of dove it might have been
But not a sound was said
All the ancient knowledge lay
In pieces on the ground
The cause of all his suffering
Was not for love of me.
[Chorus:]
His mission the transmission
Of technology - Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain 3:31
Músicos invitados: Tony Levin (Bass), Josef Vondrášek (Conductor), Sterling Campbell (Drums), Sterling Campbell (Percussion), Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Keyboards), Gerry Leonard (Harmonium), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Suzanne Vega (Backing Vocals), Hector Castillo (Recorded By), Jim Tullio (Recorded By), Karel Holas (Recorded By), Lukáš Vacek (Recorded By), Smichov Chamber Orchestra Prague (Strings), Joji Hirota (Taiko) - Jacob And The AngelVer letra 4:05
Músicos invitados: Gail Ann Dorsey (Bass), Josef Vondrášek (Conductor), Zachary Alford (Drums), Suzanne Vega (Backing Vocals), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Karel Holas (Recorded By), Lukáš Vacek (Recorded By), Michael Tudor (Recorded By), Smichov Chamber Orchestra Prague (Strings), Joji Hirota (Taiko), Joji Hirota (Shakuhachi)[X]The angel came to Jacobletra de Jacob And The Angel
The room began to glow
Jacob asked the angel
Are you friend or are you foe?
The angel never answered
But smote him on the thigh
They wrestled through the darkness
Till morning filled the sky
This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth
It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath
Angel or demon, to the truth I am bound, and so
This thing between us must be wrestled down
Jacob held on to the angel,
Who turned to fly, and to flee
He said I must have your blessing
Before I let you leave me
The angel never answered
But smote him on the thigh
They wrestled through the darkness
Till morning filled the sky
And in the light
He knew another name
As he struggled and surrendered
To the next part of the game
This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth
It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath
Angel or demon, to the truth I am bound, and so
This thing between us must be wrestled down
This thing between us, has wings, it has teeth
It has got horns and feathers, and sinews beneath
Angel or demon to the truth I am bound and so
This thing between us must be wrestled down. - Silver BridgeVer letra 3:47
Músicos invitados: Doug Yowell (Drums), Doug Yowell (Percussion), Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Harmonium), Michael Tudor (Recorded By)[X]My heart is full todayletra de Silver Bridge
For the recently departed
Of sorrow and of sympathy
Into that land uncharted
The old man turned away from me
The stairway he ascended
I heard his struggle through the night
with Saturn’s hand extended
All those nights when you can’t sleep
Your heart and mind is racing
Are you standing on that bridge
Which way are you facing?
I stared upon his body as
My soul was filled with wonder
I stayed there frozen in one place
I could not be pulled asunder
All those nights when you can’t sleep
Your heart and mind is racing
Are you standing on that bridge
Which way are you facing?
I’d sent him upstairs with a kiss
Now he lay in light of silver
It seemed to me I saw that bridge
That he had taken over
Should I make the move to him?
He wasn’t mine for claiming
I witnessed all there was to see
And withdrew without the naming
When I knew that he had been
So much more than sleeping
I stayed with him the afternoon
In a kind of vigil keeping
All those nights when you can’t sleep
Your heart and mind is racing
Are you standing on that bridge
Which way are you facing?
My heart is full today
For the recently departed
Of sorrow and of sympathy
Into that land uncharted. - Song Of The StoicVer letra 4:06
Músicos invitados: Catherine Russell (Backing Vocals), Larry Campbell (Banjo), Gail Ann Dorsey (Bass), Zachary Alford (Drums), Zachary Alford (Percussion), Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Karel Holas (Recorded By), Lukáš Vacek (Recorded By), Michael Tudor (Recorded By)[X]I am a manletra de Song Of The Stoic
I’ve been working all my days
This is my accounting
Of my means and of my ways
More years are behind me now
Than years that are ahead
Looking back I feel
This is my story to be said.
I faced my father down
Inside the hallway of our home
18 years of pain
Upon my body to the bone
Demons lived inside of him
They forced him to the act
The layers of the bruises
To my body was the fact.
Ooooh
I grew and went into the world
I learned to know it’s code
Of spoken and unspoken
And I learned to love the road
I shoulder every burden like
A mule with a heavy pack
Every coin I earn is another
Knot within my back.
Ooooh
Ecstasy and pleasure come
At much too great a cost
I keep myself upon the earth
But measure what I’ve lost
Winged things they brush against me
Never mine to hold
I keep my eyes upon the ground
And carry on as old.
I met a woman
She had the gifted touch
Her hands were wise with healing
And with wonder and all such
As the fates would have it
Each to others we are wed
We confine ourselves to friendship
And we stay out of the bed.
Oooh
Now I turn around to face
The specter of my age
My soul it fights my body
Like a bird will fight its cage.
I see that last horizon
I hope it brings me peace
I look forward to the day
At last my body knows release.
Ooooh
Ooooh - Laying On Of Hands/Stoic 2 3:53
Músicos invitados: Catherine Russell (Backing Vocals), Mike Visceglia (Bass), Sterling Campbell (Drums), Doug Yowell (Drums), Doug Yowell (Percussion), Gerry Leonard (Electric Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Michael Tudor (Recorded By) - Horizon (There Is A Road)Ver letra 2:52
Músicos invitados: Mike Visceglia (Bass), Mike Visceglia (Pedalboard), Larry Campbell (Cymbal), Doug Yowell (Drums), Gerry Leonard (Acoustic Guitar), Gerry Leonard (Harmonium), Gerry Leonard (Recorded By), Gary Thomas (4) (Recorded By), Michael Tudor (Recorded By), Alison Balsom (Trumpet)[X]There is a roadletra de Horizon (There Is A Road)
Beyond this one
It’s called the path
We don’t yet take
I can feel how it longs
To be entered upon
It calls to me with a cry
And an ache
As we go along this one
And we live the way we do
Love pulls us on to that
Distant horizon so true.
I knew a man
He lived in jail
And his tale
Is often told
He dreamed of that line that he
Called the divine
And when he was free
He led his country
Yes he taught the way of love
And he lived in that way too
Love pulled him on to that
Distant horizon so true.
There is a road beyond this one
Called the path we don’t yet take
I can feel how it longs to be entered upon
It calls to me with a cry and an ache
As we go along this one
And we live the way we do
Love pulls us on to that distant horizon
Love pulled him on to that perfect horizon
Love pulls us on to that distant horizon
So true.
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