EVERY SINGLE SUZANNE VEGA SONG*

The "last supper" everyone means when they use that term is, of course, Jesus' last supper the night before his crucifixion. ...

This song is from Suzanne Vega's one-person show about the author Carson McCullers. It's a retelling of the plot from her story ...

This sounds like a love song. And... it's about love, but is it a "love song"? It starts by positing "lover" and ...

In this song, Carson McCullers (a female American novelist) name-drops and compares herself-- favorably-- to her literary contemporaries. Sh...

This song is a reference to a Carson McCuller's story, or rather, its epilogue. The men in the title are in a chain gang. This is a grou...

This song is heart-wrenching, compelling, hyperliterate, intricate... a mini-novel. It shows that Vega is an artist still at the height of h...

The song starts with the line: "My squeezed heart divides into two wide wings," which implies that something was pressuring her to...