Black Widow Station - Suzanne Vega

I am at your halfway station darling and I’ve been waiting

For your train

I am at your halfway station darling and I’ve been waiting

For your train

But you’ve been too long darling and it looks like rain

I have seen these strange little girls who come up to you

And they don’t know when to stop

I have watched your eye as it follows the line of the leg

Right up to the top

Now betty sue and mary jane have come around to play again

But I am standing at your door and I do believe I’ll tell

Them to go home

There’s this black widow spider darling and she’s been

Walking on my hand

There’s this black widow spider darling and she’s been walking

On my hand

And we’ve had this little heart to heart and I think I

Understand

It’s a funny situation, I mean what am I to do?

With lisa in the upstairs room and joan and martha too

I can’t come down to breakfast 'cause the plates have all

Been used

And it’s as crowded as a subway car and I think that you’re

Confused

Now I would wait at your station but I do believe it’s time

That I went home

I am at black widow station darling and I’ve been waiting for

Your train

I am at black widow station darling and I’ve been waiting for

Your train

You’ve been to long darling and it looks like rain

You’ve been to long darling and it looks like rain

(january 1981)