Book & A Cover - Suzanne Vega

What’s that they told you

About a book &a cover?

Don’t judge so quickly

Is it too much to remember?

Cause pictures lie

You know

I’ll show

It’s so

Just give it one thought

What’s that they taught you?

To revere a kind of beauty?

To paint on that pretty veneer

And try to hide whatever’s dirty?

Well, faces lie

You’ll see

No sympathy

Just give it one thought

Come here and I will whisper true

About the things I know of you

And you will recognize them

Always…

As near to you as breath and bone

So dear to me, and yours alone

And I will love you for them

Always…

What’s that they tell you

About a book &a cover?

Don’t judge so quickly

They’ll tell you one thing and then another

But see what lies

Within

Under the skin

Just give it one thought

Come here and I will whisper true

About the things I know of you

And you will recognize them

Always…

As near to you as breath and bone

So dear to me, and yours alone

And I will love you for them

Always…

What’s that they told you

About a book &a cover?

Is it too much to remember?

Cause you, you’re one thing and then another…