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Honeymoon Suite

The ceiling had a painting on it
In our room in France
So we were living underneath
Some angels in a dance

My husband was not feeling well
And so we went to bed
He woke up complaining
Of an aching in his head

He said a hundred people
Had come through our room that night
That one by one the old and young
Asked if he was all right

One by one the old and young
Lined up to touch his hand
He spent the night explaining
They had come to the wrong man

The concierge was less than helpful
When we asked her the next day
With coffee and a magazine
We went to the desk to pay

What happened in that room, he asked
A death or something strange?
She smiled at him politely
And returned to him his change

Well, what I'd like to know
And this will be a mystery,
Is with all the people in that room
Why none appeared to me?

When we sleep so close together that
Our hair becomes entwined
I must have missed that moment
In the gateway to his mind

Lyrics : Suzanne Vega
Copyright : © 1996 WB Music Corp. / Waifersongs Ltd.
Album : Nine Objects Of Desire

"Nine Objects Of Desire" - tracklist :

Notes:

Suzanne explaining the the motivations to write Honeymoon Suite:
"I believe in ghosts and in angels, although those are not my words for them. I don't know what the words are for the things that I've seen and felt, but I suppose ghosts and angels come close. That's a song about intimacy, a song about how you can be very close to somebody and there are still those mysterious patches that you can't figure out. You can lay next to someone every night and still not quite have the last bit covered, you know? That's what that's about, trying to figure out how someone else's psyche works."
"All you have to do is look at someone's dreams and you can see there are huge areas of mystery that you'll never tap, and that's what keeps things alive and keeps a relationship fascinating."
Music Power Network interview by Mr. Bonzai (http://www.vega.net/bonzai.htm)

"This is a true story about my honeymoon in Paris last year."
In concert: Propaganda Club, Milan, Italy, October 16, 1996

The object of desire is Mitchell Froom. [Ed.]