Title: Title Track Album: Songs in Red and Gray Artist: Suzanne Vega Method: Fingerpicking Tempo: Andante moderato Capo on 4th fret [Chords] Am       x0221x Asus2    x0220x Fadd#11  x3220x G/D      x5540x Csus4    x3300x E        02210x [Intro] Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4 / Csus4 [Verse 1]       Am             Asus2           Fadd#11 The reproach on your daughter’s most beautiful face         Am          Asus2         Fadd#11 Made me wonder just how she could know         Am             Asus2        Fadd#11 Of that something that happened between you and me         Am          Asus2     Fadd#11 So much more than a long time ago [Verse 2] Her mother I can see lives within her still Cause she looked at me with her eyes Though I had only just met her right then I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise [Instrumental] Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2 [Verse 1]     Am          Asus2          Fadd#11 Did I break the thread or did you break the thread?         Am            Asus2          Fadd#11 Well at this point we could ask who cares Am         Asus2    Fadd#11 As for the promises broken and frayed           Am      Asus2       Fadd#11 Well it’s 19 years late for repairs [Verse 2] The grey pewter vase held the deep red rose  One piece of coral shone white By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat Is everything I can recall of one night [Vocal & Instrumental Solo] Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4 / Csus4 [Verse 1]          Am             Asus2   Fadd#11 Will you please tell me why I remember these things       Am          Asus2         Fadd#11 After all of this time I don’t know Am          Asus2          Fadd#11 I must have left all those feelings inside            Am           Asus2       Fadd#11 Cause that year I had no courage to show [Verse 2]  Was I the name you could never pronounce? Did I even figure at all? All of this happened before she was born Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall [Verse 1] Am          Asus2      Fadd#11  Still I am sure I was only but one      Am         Asus2         Fadd#11 Of a number who darkened that door         Am            Asus2          Fadd#11 Of your home and your heart and your family and wife            Am          Asus2   Fadd#11 Who’d been darkened so often before [Verse 2] And the red leaf it looks to the hard gray stone To each other they know what they mean Somewhere their future is still yet to come In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen [Outro] Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2 / Csus4

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À propos de la chanson

La chanson explore les thèmes de la mémoire, de la culpabilité et des relations passées. Elle évoque des souvenirs d'une connexion émotionnelle entre deux personnes, longtemps oubliée mais toujours présente dans l'esprit du narrateur. Les images d'un vase et d'une rose symbolisent une fragilité et une beauté éphémère, tandis que les questionnements sur les promesses brisées mettent en lumière la complexité des choix faits dans le passé. À travers une introspection sincère, l'artiste examine l'impact que ces souvenirs ont sur le présent, en s'interrogeant sur le rôle qu'elle a joué dans la vie des autres et sur ce qui a été laissé en suspens.