{"id":144,"date":"2016-06-07T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-06-07T20:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:37:24","slug":"100-of-my-favourite-songs-cracking-by-suzanne-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"100 of my favourite songs: ‘cracking’ by suzanne vega"},"content":{"rendered":"

suzanne vega -‘cracking’<\/a>\"220px-SuzanneVegadebutalbum\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s the link up there – this one goes back to Summer 1985; we thought we were being cool cooking up banana skins on a trangia ( I was quietly relieved it didn’t work) me, \u00a0James, \u00a0Alex, and Gutsy who had a tape-recorder and for some reason in the middle of the hot day put on a cassette of someone none of us had ever heard of – suzanne vega. \u00a0This was her first album and from the beginning of the first song to the end of the album she had us – no-one said a word.<\/p>\n

It’s 1980’s New York, it’s female, it’s grown up relationships; basically I knew nothing about any of that, but like \u00a0the Woody Allen films I’d seen I kind of wanted to be in that world.<\/p>\n

This is the first track from that album,\u00a0delivered with simple conversational language, and stripped down (almost) to a guitar \u00a0a voice;\u00a0\u00a0but sometimes when the song is strong enough that just gives it a sharper focus, like travelling straight into someone else mind.<\/p>\n

It’s a one time thing
\nIt just happens
\nA lot
\nWalk with me
\nAnd we will see
\nWhat we have got
\nAh<\/p>\n

My footsteps are ticking
\nLike water dripping from a tree
\nWalking a harline
\nAnd stepping very carefully
\nAh<\/p>\n

My heart is broken
\nIt is worn out at the knees
\nHearing muffled
\nSeeing blind
\nSoon it will hit the Deep Freeze<\/p>\n

And something is cracking
\nI don’t know where
\nIce on the sidewalk
\nBrittle braches
\nIn the air<\/p>\n

The sun
\nIs blinding
\nDizzy golden, dancing green
\nThrough the park in the afternoon
\nWondering where the hell
\nI have been
\nAh<\/p>\n

there is at least one of mine which unconsciously probably owes her quite a lot\u00a0it can happen to you<\/a>\u00a0 I think she might have sung\u00a0it better than I managed. \u00a0I suppose\u00a0this is\u00a0one strand of what I’ve been trying to do in my own way ever since I heard her; write something so striking and clear that without a band or a big emotional delivery, I could grab even a tent of grubby fifteen year olds.<\/p>\n

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suzanne vega -‘cracking’ That’s the link up there – this one goes back to Summer 1985; we thought we were being cool cooking up banana skins on a trangia ( I was quietly relieved it didn’t work) me, \u00a0James, \u00a0Alex, and Gutsy who had a tape-recorder and for some reason in the middle of the … Continue reading 100 of my favourite songs: ‘cracking’ by suzanne vega<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41,40,39],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":408,"url":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=408","url_meta":{"origin":144,"position":0},"title":"1,2,3,4!","author":"admin","date":"October 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Autobiograpical innit? Wrote this in Nathaniel's bedroom which may be why it become something about the 4 of us. 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