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...