Vega, Suzanne - Small Blue Thing Lyrics

Thank you, still gives me the goosebump-surge it did 25 years ago when i first heard this beautiful song - the accompanying imagery is superb! Many thanks for sharing :)

magnifique voice for melodie souvenir alliance femme precise de guitar and grace :merci madam :

This sounds like a slightly different version than the one on the first album. Is it? If so what's its origin?

It is indeed a re recording for the Close Up album

Like a marble

I am scattering like light

Universe gives birth
to small blue planet,
which in turn
nurtures child
within a teardrop
of ocean

never heard this version before, the album version had far worst mic capture. Funny how nice this alternate take of her voice works, even though it is heavily clipped

like a Smurf

Another beautiful track....

this track with Suzzane's voice is part of Heritage of Humanity

Thank you for posting
A forgotten favorite
Nice visuals too

Beautiful visualisation to one of the most entrancing songs ever written.

Jsem malá modrá věc.

beauty kauneus

The first time i heard this, i was walking alone in my new neighborhood, & found one small, light-blue marble, no one could see through... 1988.♡

I love you, Suzanne.

It's gonna be ok buddy. Yes this is for u buddy! Force smiles...walk around looking like the Joker in Batman until u burst out laughing... That's how u channel good energy

You have always been a poet to my heart. God bless you. Your songs have always made me happy when i was sad in my life. I bought my first album of yours
"Solitude Standing" after watching the song video for Luka on VH1 music channel in the 80's. That was your second album and then i bought your first and have been with you as your loyal fan since then. 💝💝💝

i was fortunate to get the double single pack of this song the 12" of left of centre, and the 2 albums mentioned,

My favourite Vega song. Seems to me to be very melancholic and sad. Is she unhappy and receding into herself trapped in a relationship that is not a happy one? She's small, she's cool and cold, her knees are pulled up against her mouth, watching him. She is cold against his skin. Does this mean she feels manipulated and trapped? Does she no longer love him?

Haunting. Like a beautiful piece of art, a imagined landscape that exists on a wall for centuries, watching over a family and all their relations. A real toad in an imaginary garden. With a purpose beyond our own understanding. But always beloved by those invoked by its passive beauty.

A beautiful song....

tune...

It's so sad 😔😢

Heart breakingly beautiful. Such wonderful use of language, imagery, simile and metaphor. Could you imagine going to a creative writing class hosted by Suzanne Vega?!

great song, but about as erotic as a cross bow

Each to his own, Paul.

Wunderbar!!! :-)))

💚😔 "I am turning in your hand, turning in your hand"

heard this at kfc and google sound searched it

The most beautiful colour...and photos...and song. Today I am a small blue thing made of glass...wonderful.

one of the most beautiful love songs

It is song about love albeit uneasy one, nearing breakup. Small blue thing is basically extended metaphor of a woman's feelings in difficult relationship. It is not known why there is tension between the two but she is struggling between her love to him and desire to flee. Like victim of domestic violence. At least this is how I understand that song. I may be wrong.

water is life like earth is our heart. i am with you

Travis Yirka love 😍

heard this at mcdonalds and shazamed it

Beautiful.

Really nice.

6million 4bullshit are retarded assholes, oh well I guess someone has to be.I have seen the curvature of the earth from space ,explain that poindexter

First time listening to this, and I'm stunned. Had never considered this artist worthy, but suddenly realize how mistaken I've been. Absolutely gorgeous, poignant song. Must have.

"Had never considered this artist worthy" You have missed years and years of great music because of this attitude. I'm sad for you.

The first and second albums are both priceless.

Absolutely perfect images to put together for this video, Beatriz. Nicely done.

Wow! I can really related with the words of feeling at times like a small blue thing falling down the stairs and scattering like light and slipping on the sidewalk and feeling yaknow? I can really relate with what Suzy V just sang or as they say in the Southern USA simply, "Heard that!"

The most pristinely erotic song I've heard. The idea of someone relishing an experience of total self-objectification borders on scary. She realizes that a "small blue thing" is something to be just for "today" but not forever and always. I hope that when the moment passes she'll have no trouble finding her way out of his pocket and away from his fingers and will recover some sense of her own existence instead of being his perfect reflection. Whew!

Interesting analysis, full of feeling. You must be a woman. :) She explored so many different areas and perspectives that no one else did in those days (Luka - domestic violence, for ex). Too bad the singer songwriter is gone, replaced by the satanic marketing campaign (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry).

Bob Dobalina Actually I am a man married to the same woman for 35 years...but I know my name can be confusing ( Berel not Beryl)

that was me via another social media platform

Berel Dov Lerner ;) that's beautiful

That is a completely messed up interpretation. She's singing about being a little girl and using her imagination, and pretending to be a marble. Get help or something.

Una cosa semplicemente meravigliosa.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. THIS was my generation. THIS is indicative of a time when we were HUMANS, not ANDROIDs and I-phones.  I would trade all days of the 21st century for just to be able to go back to those days.  The current generation are USELESS cell phone worshippers (look up Transhumanism).  Long live the 80s forever. Peace. 

There's the possibility of some thinking somewhere in your post, Bob Dobalina, but I've yet to find it. Why do you want to save humanity? This happened, the moon landing happened, Voyager left the Solar System. Is that not enough of a monument on our grave? Let it pass, unless you have a messiah complex. There's no frog being boiled, here, because there's no agent boiling the frog. You give the game away, quacking on about "free will", and all that quacking is just your license to feel righteous and indignant. Far from being Pollyanna, I'm a student of what I observe, rather than what I hope for, the latter being the province of religion. Yes, we see something beautiful and then start wishing it could last forever. Thermodynamics is against us.

Fleetwood

I am 15, the current generation. Yet I live for this song, I was raised on Suzanne Vega and Melanie, listening to Woodstock and dancing round the kitchen to Woodstock. I take long walks in nature and do all the other earth praising mind cleansing things. And I have a mobile phone. I am not zombie. I'm just different from you.

This never consumed a generation. Just a select few understood its impact on our lives. I hope Suzanne was one of them. We couldn't forget if we tried to force ourselves to. The marble in our minds, real and existant, and undeniable as the sun or the earth. On my deathbead, my final thought will be, "Worth it. Worth it all. Thank you so much."

I agree totally.

wonderful images to a brilliant artist, and this song is so beautiful

Two songs in my 51 years make me inconsolable every time.  The other one is Beethoven's 3rd symphony.  Suzanne...you articulate the point of beauty like nobody else.  You get me in a way I don't understand.  You lay me low with this song.  I won't tell you how gorgeous I think you are in this comment cus I want you to know it's the song that is kicking my emotional ass this time.  Thanks for the tears, my love.

+Brent Reid What a beautiful comment. Hugs you.

beautiful version with alternative vocal to the album version.. 

Thank you Jennifer Serti! A smart and very on point comment.

Beautiful video with a beautiful song. Thank you!

I just came here to listen to this song but my eyes got lost in those beautiful pictures. They're very well selected, congratulations! 

This and In Liverpool are my favorite songs by Suzanne! 

Bravo im a pilipino

tremendous, even though the original is better.

very beautiful! ♥

100 % beautiful

bellissimo !!!!