Album: Solitude Standing (1987)
Lyrics excerpt:
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
Reasons to love this song:
Gypsy was recorded for Suzanne Vega's 1987 album Solitude Standing, but like Calypso from the same album, it was written much earlier in 1978. It is an account of a romance with a stranger from a distant land; it ends with the two lovers parting, but the narrator promises her lover that he would "hear himself in song blowing by one day". According to Suzanne Vega, the song is based on her first romance, with a Dadaist artist from Liverpool (whom she also refers to in another song: In Liverpool from 99.9° F (1992). The song is evocative, romantic, nostalgic but not at all sad -- a story about a romance that meant a lot to the author but was never meant to last.
Link to Amazon preview:
Gypsy
YouTube link:
Suzanne Vega talking about the romance that inspired the song
Another account of the story can be found here.
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