Silver Bridge - Suzanne Vega

My heart is full today

For the recently departed

Of sorrow and of sympathy

Into that land uncharted

The old man turned away from me The stairway he ascended

I heard his struggle through the night

with Saturn’s hand extended

All those nights when you can’t sleep

Your heart and mind is racing

Are you standing on that bridge

Which way are you facing?

I stared upon his body as My soul was filled with wonder

I stayed there frozen in one place

I could not be pulled asunder

All those nights when you can’t sleep

Your heart and mind is racing

Are you standing on that bridge

Which way are you facing?

I’d sent him upstairs with a kiss

Now he lay in light of silver

It seemed to me I saw that bridge

That he had taken over

Should I make the move to him?

He wasn’t mine for claiming

I witnessed all there was to see

And withdrew without the naming

When I knew that he had been

So much more than sleeping

I stayed with him the afternoon

In a kind of vigil keeping

All those nights when you can’t sleep

Your heart and mind is racing

Are you standing on that bridge

Which way are you facing?

My heart is full today

For the recently departed

Of sorrow and of sympathy

Into that land uncharted.