Suzanne Vega citations

“I've watched your palace up here on the hill
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
Only first I am asking you why.”

“I won't march again on your battlefield.”

“If you hear something late at night,
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight,
Just don't ask me what it was.”

“I have swallowed a secret burning thread.”

“They only hit until you cry,
After that, you don't ask why.”

“My name is Luka.
I live on the second floor.
I live upstairs from you.
Yes, I think you've seen me before.”

“I open up the paper,
there's the story of an actor
who had died while he was drinking,
it was no one I had heard of.”

“If you were to kill me now right here,
I would still look you in the eye”

“The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door,
He said "I am not fighting for you any more."”