So Long, Marianne - John Cale, Suzanne Vega

Come over to the window, my little darling,

I’d like to try to read you palm

I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy

Before I let you take me home.

Chorus: So long Marianne, it’s time that we began

To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

Well, you know that I love to live with you,

But you make me forget so very much

I forget to pray for the angel

And then the angels forget to pray for us.

Chorus

We met when we were almost young

Deep in the green lilac park

You held on to me like I was a crucifix

As we went kneeling through the dark.

Chorus

Your letters say that you are beside me now

Then why do I feel alone?

I’m standing on a ledge and your fine spider web

Is fastening my ankle to a stone.

Chorus

For now I need your hidden love

I’m cold as a new razor blade

You left when I told you I was curious

I never said that I was brave.

Chorus

O you are really such a pretty one

I see you’ve gone and changed your name again

And just when I climbed this whole mountainside

To wash my eyelids in the rain.

Chorus