She is poignantly reflective of my life....I love her. Especially "My name is Luka" which encapsulates my early days in college.... I'm going to Glasgow, Scotland to hear her live in concert later this year! So grateful to her! ❤ PS If anyone is going to go to this concert also, please let me know... I don't know anyone in that part of the UK! Blessings All.....🥰
Wept like a child upon first listen, hauntingly innocent and pure expression of melancholy by the one and only Suzanne Vega. This song alone cemented her as one of the most gifted singer-songwriters I've ever come across.
Heart breakingly beautiful. Such wonderful use of language, imagery, simile and metaphor. Could you imagine going to a creative writing class hosted by Suzanne Vega?!
Two songs in my 51 years make me inconsolable every time. The other one is Beethoven's 3rd symphony. Suzanne...you articulate the point of beauty like nobody else. You get me in a way I don't understand. You lay me low with this song. I won't tell you how gorgeous I think you are in this comment cus I want you to know it's the song that is kicking my emotional ass this time. Thanks for the tears, my love.
im an artist that wanted to be a musician, it never happened. But this song is when art meets music. Absolutely sublime. I just go back to it again and again as it is perfect thank you Suzanne Vega, you are an artist and a musician.
You hear things that make a lot of money or get loads of likes on RU-vid and then you hear this and you know that there is such a thing as 3D music, as an aural sculpture. That some people can make things of such beauty you can only wonder.
One of Suzanne Vega's many best and fabulous songs and tingling down the spine poignant..and beautiful....cold against the skin yet warm...Unforgettable...
First time listening to this, and I'm stunned. Had never considered this artist worthy, but suddenly realize how mistaken I've been. Absolutely gorgeous, poignant song. Must have.
Found it again, right, @AJP VIenna! I saw her perform this in the L.A. area in front of maybe 50 people when she was just getting her career started. Blew me completely away, I was in awe. That was a long time ago but still incredibly vivid in my mind.
Singer-songwriters had long fallen out of fashion by then,compared to their heyday in the late 60s and the earlier part of the 70s,so this felt like a bit of a time capsule even then.
On a dog day winter's afternoon free to do what I like with after a busy early and middle to the week,back here listening to this again and other songs from winter 1985-86. Volume up a bit,cuppa in hand,standing in the doorway to the garden watching the seasons.
Haunting. Like a beautiful piece of art, a imagined landscape that exists on a wall for centuries, watching over a family and all their relations. A real toad in an imaginary garden. With a purpose beyond our own understanding. But always beloved by those invoked by its passive beauty.
Where are you? I am lost without you...so many years on and I am still scatterimg like light and I am turning in a hand that I cannot find,,...Still I am scattering like light ..and yet without you.. I am an even smaller blue thing....You have probably forgotten me...Such is life...
Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am watching you I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand Turning in your hand Small blue thing Turning in your hand
It is song about love albeit uneasy one, nearing breakup. Small blue thing is basically extended metaphor of a woman's feelings in difficult relationship. It is not known why there is tension between the two but she is struggling between her love to him and desire to flee. Like victim of domestic violence. At least this is how I understand that song. I may be wrong.
You have always been a poet to my heart. God bless you. Your songs have always made me happy when i was sad in my life. I bought my first album of yours "Solitude Standing" after watching the song video for Luka on VH1 music channel in the 80's. That was your second album and then i bought your first and have been with you as your loyal fan since then. 💝💝💝
My favourite Vega song. Seems to me to be very melancholic and sad. Is she unhappy and receding into herself trapped in a relationship that is not a happy one? She's small, she's cool and cold, her knees are pulled up against her mouth, watching him. She is cold against his skin. Does this mean she feels manipulated and trapped? Does she no longer love him?
The most pristinely erotic song I've heard. The idea of someone relishing an experience of total self-objectification borders on scary. She realizes that a "small blue thing" is something to be just for "today" but not forever and always. I hope that when the moment passes she'll have no trouble finding her way out of his pocket and away from his fingers and will recover some sense of her own existence instead of being his perfect reflection. Whew!
+N0eWats0n I mentioned this interpretation in one of my classes and a student told me he heard Suzanne Vega explain the song the same way in one of her concerts!
It's great you can share this points of view with your students. I'm a teacher too, so I can perfectly understand you. Suzanne Vega's song are pure poetry! She's got a great gift to explain abstact situations in such a fancy and exciting way. Greetings from Mexico !
Interesting analysis, full of feeling. You must be a woman. :) She explored so many different areas and perspectives that no one else did in those days (Luka - domestic violence, for ex). Too bad the singer songwriter is gone, replaced by the satanic marketing campaign (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry).
It's gonna be ok buddy. Yes this is for u buddy! Force smiles...walk around looking like the Joker in Batman until u burst out laughing... That's how u channel good energy
First time ever hearing this song, a true masterpiece reminiscent of the othet great American songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot Paul Simon and Don Mc Clean
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. THIS was my generation. THIS is indicative of a time when we were HUMANS, not ANDROIDs and I-phones. I would trade all days of the 21st century for just to be able to go back to those days. The current generation are USELESS cell phone worshippers (look up Transhumanism). Long live the 80s forever. Peace.
+Bob Dobalina And I'm not saying that in a mean way, but your comment is so condescending. It's not because people are addicted to technology that they are not human anymore. Even though I can relate to what you say, I don't believe the actual generation is useless, rather the industry that influences it. People are just being manipulated by bigger organizations, but they are not useless. If you think like that, then you just as well give up your humanity, but most of all your compassion towards others which is primordial. And why would it bother you so much? You lost all your friends and family to cellphones? The world is still alive, you just have to chose to be conscious and not fall in the disbeliefs of ego, there is no point in showing hate toward a "generation" or a population, maybe you can try to contaminate people around you in being more open to the world and if they aren't then it is their problem wouldn't you think?
+Bob Dobalina you are right .. have you seen the movie "They live" by Carpenter? Have you looked up at the chemtrails in the sky? They are going to transforma us into a sort of ... teletubbies
Is this the version that was out as a single in the UK in winter 1985-86,like Marlena on the Wall? Hearing those two songs on the radio back then was the first time I heard Suzanne Vega's music - and it must be absolute donkey's years since I last heard this one.
never heard this version before, the album version had far worst mic capture. Funny how nice this alternate take of her voice works, even though it is heavily clipped
