Gypsy Lyrics

Gypsy lyrics

Suzanne Vega

  

  You come from far away

  With pictures in your eyes

  Of coffeeshops 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

  

  You are 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...

  

  You have hands of raining 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

  Yes 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...

  

  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

  

  Oh, hold me like a baby...