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[moonwise]

All right, muse, you got your update.

I braved the Armbuster Scanner just for you.

With great thanks to hidetomatsumoto for Suzanne Vega's "Solitude," the song "Gypsy" has been getting the muses active again.

Such a pretty song...



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...

Comments

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

You know she actually wrote that song about a friend of hers. They were both at some sort of festival, or camp--I don't remember for sure. I remember reading about that somewhere, or hearing it in an interview.

But yes, I love listening to that CD. My favorite time to do so, is when I go to bed, and then listen to it until I fall asleep...

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to fall asleep deliberately to music. But it is a folksy album, not loud.

Thanks for the tidbit about the song. :)

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

I remember when I used to stay over at my friends house, we would leave the radio on all night... That's a sort of surreal experience, but not recommended if you need your sleep. ;)

[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

That's my *favorite*!! That's the Suzanne Vega song that basically made me fall in love with her... I saw her sing it on Austin City Limits in the middle of the night one night about six years ago... (It's also partially responsible for Brian and I getting together, but that's a story for when I have more time). I've heard her sing it live twice, and it chokes me up every time. Sweet nostalgia.

She met the guy at a summer camp where they were both camp counselors. She was the (self-described) disco-dancing folk-singing counselor, and he was a kind of dadaist artist counselor. (He had applied for the job in part to show that he wouldn't get it because of the style of art he did, but then he did get it, and found himself teaching art to kids...heh).

She has another song about this guy (who she refers to as "The Gypsy Guy") on 99.9F called "In Liverpool."

Anyway, if you want me to send you any Suzanne Vega cds, let me know -- I have all of them. :) She is my goddess!

[pantswarrior]

Mmm, I love Suzanne Vega... my art teacher got me hooked by playing her stuff during class, but I haven't managed to find her first two albums yet. I did get an MP3 of that song though, just because for some reason Hardin claimed it. ;)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Hardin claimed it? So we have two happy muses now? :)

What are the first two albums? I know that "Solitude" was the "breakthrough" album, but I don't know enough about Suzanne Vega to know which one was the first.

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

She had one album before Solitude Standing, but I forgot the name of it...

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

It was self titled. Here's a fan site: http://www.vega.net/

[pantswarrior]

Yeah, Hardin grabs songs based on the lyrics, without me ever having actually heard the song in question sometimes. That was the case here, or fairly close, because I hadn't heard it for years. (I still haven't actually heard the Blue Oyster Cult songs he claimed some time ago... he's a really weird muse.) He's big on Suzanne though - The Queen and the Soldier is a song for both him and Sydney, especially since Sydney's sword is named Czarine... really freakin' eerie.

If I'm remembering right, the first album was just self-titled. And really good. :D So yeah, Solitude was the second.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... so what do you think of the song now that you've heard it (again?) Sometimes I'll read lyrics and then be rather disappointed when the tune doesn't fit what I feel is the tenor of the song!

I wonder if you can find the first album used on Amazon or Half.com or something...

[pantswarrior]

Heh, I know what you mean... at the recommendation of Technomancy, I found Nine Inch Nails' "I Do Not Want This" for Hardin too, and though the lyrics work, I don't know about the music... but then, I've never liked NIN to begin with. :P

This one, though, worked fairly well. I was picturing something a little more desperate and plaintive rather than calm and peaceful, but then upon hearing it, Sydney decided he liked it too, because he's more into the actual music than the lyrics. And now it reminds both of them of each other, for different reasons. :P Psycho muses.

And yeah, I've almost exclusively shopped the used sections of places, even when I had my job that paid twice what I needed to get by on, because I'm a cheapskate. It's pretty hard to find old Suzanne used, though, it seems... I've even had trouble finding it new, locally. This was all before I knew about online shopping, though. ;

[arafel.livejournal.com]

What's Technomancy, pray tell? I've heard of them before but I can't place it.

NIN is a tough sell - very industrial and driving. I have to be in a very particular mood before I can listen to any of their stuff. Don't own any albums, myself.

heck, who can be bothered paying full price when you can get it used? My favorite CD shop has the used cd's stuck in with the new, so that you can find the used copy with the new ones. I lucked out once with a handful of used Tori Amos singles.

You have "Solitude," right?

[pantswarrior]

www.mancer.net - Basically a group of authors/webmistresses about my age, that write some pretty darned good stuff. I stumbled across them while looking for Hardin fic sometime last year, and since have gotten to know D/Alanna, at least... we have way too much in common, really, it's creepy. ;)

I think I've never been able to take NIN seriously since I saw the video for Closer. Even hearing the song still makes me start laughing like crazy to this day... every time that or The Perfect Drug came on MTV, my brother and I would just die laughing. :D

And nope, no Solitude. I consider myself lucky to have found 99.9F, Days of Open Hand, and Nine Objects of Desire all used... I found 99.9F used right away, in fact, which was a lucky thing considering that the song that got me hooked on her was "In Liverpool"

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Meep! Well I can help you with Solitude now if you're interested. LMK if you are, no strings attached.

Thanks for the link. I'll definitely check them out.

I've never seen any NIN videos - I suppose I should be grateful? :)

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

:) Your muse has reasons to be happy and feel like he gets the attention he wants.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

My muse should materialize and do the scanning by his own goddamned self. :)

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[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

He should !

It would be so much easier if they could just materialize and do all the things they want us to do for them themselves.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Then again... I'm sure my primary muse would bitch and complain about the scanner so much that I'd take the book back just to get him to shut up... ^_^

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[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

Heh heh, I think I could hear him too.

:)