Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk

Consider me a widow, boys

and I will tell you why.

It's not the man, but it's the marriage

that was drowned.

So I walk the walk

and wait with watchful eye out to the sky,

Looking for a kind of vessel

I have never found.

Though I saw it splinter

I keep looking out to sea,

Like a dog with little sense,

I keep returning,

To the very area where

I did see the thing go down

as if there's something at the site

I should be learning.

That line is the horizon.

We watch the wind and set the sail,

but save ourselves when all omens

point to fail.

If I tell the truth

then I will have to tell you this

Though I grieve and I believe

I feel it truly

But I knew that ship was empty

by the time it hit the rocks,

We could not hold on

when fate became unruly.

So consider me a widow, boys,

and I have told you why.

Does the weather say

a better day is nearing?

I'll set my house in order now

and wait upon the Will

It's clear that I need

better skill in steering...

That line is the horizon.

We watch the wind and set the sail,

But save ourselves when all omens

point to fail

That line is the horizon.

We watch the wind and set the sail,

But save ourselves when all omens

point to fail

point to fail

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