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16 Feb 2004 @ 19:40, by Tom Bombadil

Big Space
Suzanne Vega
(Days of Open Hand)


He said you stand in your own shoes
I said I'd rather stand in someone else's
He said you look from your direction
I said I like to keep perspective


Close to the middle of the network
It seems we're looking for a center
What if it turns out to be hollow?
We could be fixing what is broken

Between the pen and the paperwork
There must be passion in the language
Between the muscle and the brain work
There must be feeling in the pipeline

Beyond the duty and the discipline
I know there's anger in a cold place
All feelings fall into the big space
Swept up like garbage on the week-end

Between the pen and the paperwork
There must be passion in the language
Between the muscle and the brain work
There must be feeling in the pipeline

All feeling
Falls into the big space
All feeling
Swept into the
Avenues of angles

Between the pen and the paperwork
I'm sure there's passion in the language
Between the muscle and the brain work
I know there's feeling in the pipeline



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The song above was released in 1990 in Suzanne Vega's album, Days of Open Hand.

The Passionate Eye is a compendium of her collected writings: poems and stories (starting with a poem she wrote at age nine called "By Myself"); song lyrics and overheard conversations; remembrances of times past and faraway countries.


I belong to a group on the internet, they had formed themselves before I found out about it and they had devoted themselves to writing about the lyrics and stuff like that, and so I joined this group a few years ago. And this particular person, Bruce Miyashita would write essays about my lyrics and then also about related issues, like Film Noir, mental illness, or, you know, whatever kind of provoked his fancy. So he had written an essay called "The Passionate Eye" and I just was stricken by the title and so I asked him if I could use it for the title here.
-- Suzanne Vega - 1999 Interview


Undertow is a collection of Suzanne Vega’s correspondence on the Internet from 1994 to 2003.

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