Vega, Suzanne - Tom's Diner Lyrics

Tupac Dopefiend's Diner brought me here.

This song begins with the narrator stopping at a diner for a cup of coffee. This song mentions reading a newspaper as well as seeing two women, one who enters the diner and one who stands outside in the rain. The ringing of bells at a nearby cathedral causes the narrator to reminisce about an unnamed companion and a midnight picnic. At the end of the song, the narrator leaves the diner to catch the train after the coffee is finished.

Here after listening to Ava Max in 'Let It Be Me' and knowing I'd heard that sound she makes SOMEWHERE. Finally found it.

Which year this song released ?

Who’s here after hearing the remix?

yıllardır arıyordum bu şarkıyı sadece dıt dıt kısmı aklımdaydı geçen radyoda duyunca sözleri çıkardım

Centuries - Fall out boy copied the style of this song, the "du tu du tu du tu du" part, he totally ripped it off. Fuck them .

Went to Wendy's got the 4 for 4 with the pineapple so-

Gen X: TODAYS MUSIC IS MEANINGLESS CRAP
Also Gen X: there's a woman on the outside looking inside does she she me

2020. Uzbekistan

I am waiting on the corner
On the corner, on-on the corner
I am drinking on the corner
On the corner, on-on the corner
I am waiting on the corner
On the corner, on-on the corner
I am drinking on the corner
On the corner, on-on the corner

2020 anyone?

Who's still listening in 2020.?

I don't care if anyone is listening to dis in

2020
2019
2018
........
........

Why so Serious ???

Some smooth New Jack Swing.

Anyone know it from peep show, when Jeremy presents his crouch and hums this tune

Isn't this a remix? I think Suzanne's version was a capella.

“Went to Wendy’s got the 4 for 4 with the pineapple soda”

i still listening 2020

Mtv, grow old

2020 and still sounds good 3 decades on.

2020 and still jamming to this with my art teacher on a Thursday afternoon

OMG I'VE FOUND IT

Time less. Who 2020?

3:38 that scared the hell out of me

Kind of like a Seinfeld episode about nothing but you can't stop listening. Very catchy

Looked for this song for almost 4 years but just found it on one of the AGT shows. Loved it.

Я тут из 2020❤️

Nostalgia!!!!

Needless to say, this was an eventful morning....For her!

2020 and I'm still alive! 😭

It is about love ... the song is about thinking about thinking about someone all day long while doing every day things

It's ya boi yo Gotti 💯

What amazing sweet memories! early 90's: fantastic years! Hello from Athens Greece!

Im here from David Guetta - Let it be me

https://youtu.be/5r3B7yz6J68
Annenmaykantereit from Cologne
New Version

OMG this really brings back some memories!! I would've been 9 going on to 10 when I heard....Reminds alot of school when I was kid, hearing after some 32 years makes me SO happy and it still sounds so fresh and new all over again...On my YT playlist forever after so long...Better times...

I first heard this song on "In living color".

This song is about the Seinfeld diner...song about nothing for the show about nothing

Soy el único latino que le gusta está canción???🤔🤔. Quién dice yo.??

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Good tune but it gets repetitive cos it keeps using the same loop

One of the best remixes...ever.

Me lo ricordavo diverso gemitaiz

IDK about you guys. I came here from:
"Went to Wendy's,
got the four for four
with the pineapple soda".

I prefer the TunaMelt ReMix.

Tik Tok? 😂😂

Yo Gotti - Standing in The Kitchen sent me on a quest for this song

Música para os meus ouvidos \😀/

bruh this sounds at the begining like centuries from fall out boy

Centuries took the opening of this for their opening. Unfortunately only older generations will know the true origin.

Who's fall out boy

@Sal O it's a band that used the opening of this song for their own one (it is called "Centuries")

Search it up and you will find out what we are talking about

@PrinceVinc I agree but let me tell you something... I'm 12... I don't think I'm from the older generations...

This is my favorite song by Suzanne Vega.

I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in

"It is always
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the counter
To the woman
Who has come in
She is shaking
Her umbrella
And I look
The other way
As they are kissing
Their hellos
And I'm pretending
Not to see them
And instead
I pour the milk

I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor
Who had died
While he was drinking
It was no one
I had heard of
And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies
When I'm feeling
Someone watching me
And so
I raise my head
There's a woman
On the outside
Looking inside
Does she see me?
No, she does not
Really see me
'Cause she sees
Her own reflection
And I'm trying
Not to notice
That she's hitching
Up her skirt
And while she's
Straightening her stockings
Her hair
Has gotten wet

Oh, this rain
It will continue
Through the morning
As I'm listening
To the bells
Of the cathedral
I am thinking
Of your voice
And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began

I finish up my coffee
And it's time to catch the train

☮️💓 A definite classic in Woodstock's Jukebox! Rock on Suzanne!

I feel sorry for people that were not teenagers in the 90s like me, as we had THE best era for music 😊 this song was in the movie Untamed heart

Cant hate the beat!

Adidas skateboard

2019...2020....2043

This song is pure shit! I cant fucking stand it.

This was never the original version. This is a ridiculous "dance" version of a really wonderful song.

This song is a rather-simple narrative the singer relays from a first-person perspective while sitting in the titular “Tom’s Diner”. And she is taking on the role of a male patron while doing so.

He finds himself visiting “the diner” for some morning coffee. While he is being served, a woman walks in whom the workers at the shop are familiar with, and they exchange heartfelt “hellos” with. When she enters “she is shaking her umbrella” since it is raining outside. Indeed later in the narrative the singer beholds a woman whose hair is wet and straightening herself out using her reflection in the window of Tom’s Diner directly in front of him. However, she does not see him on the other side, and he does his best not to stare at her while she is “straightening her stockings”. This may be the only time in the song’s lyrics where it is implied that the narrator is a male.

While enjoying his morning joe, the singer flips through a newspaper and comes across a headline about “an actor who had died while he was drinking”, as well as going through “the horoscope” and “funnies” sections. Also he hears “the bells of the cathedral” in the background.  And finally he ‘finishes up his coffee’ and noticing “it’s time to catch the train”, likely alluding to the New York City subway, apparently heads off to do so.

And that’s the gist of this song.  There does not appear to be any artistic metaphors of veiled meanings behind its lyrics. Rather it simply features the singer chronicling a morning he spent in “Tom’s Diner”, which is based on an actual location in New York City.

Tom’s Diner” is real
In actuality is called Tom’s Restaurant, and as aforementioned it is situated in New York City. Suzanne Vega, a New Yorker for life, is said to have frequented this establishment during the early 1980s, when this song was dropped.  In fact she states that to this day when TV crews come from other parts of the country to interview her, they insist that they do so at Tom’s Restaurant.

According to Vega, Tom’s Restaurant has even added her name, albeit misspelled, onto their menu. This is obviously the restaurant’s way of saying thank you to Vega for making their business famous the world over

The Cathedral
“The cathedral” referenced in the lyrics would actually be the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This cathedral is only a block away from Tom’s Restaurant.



This song was sampled by FOB on their song Centuries

One of the absolute shittiest songs of all time.

damn girl u dirty

Heard this on the radio today. I'm so glad this song is still in the game and remembered.

“Instead, I pour the milk” is my personal mantra

How could someone born in California in 1959 have never heard of William Holden? He was an Oscar nominee in 1976 when she was 17. It would be like a 22 year old today not knowing who Brad Pitt is.

😘😍👑

Good song.

Susan Vega actually wrote this song on November 18th, 1981. That was the day the New York Post carried a front page story of the death of actor William Holden (the American escapee in _The Bridge on the River Kwai)_ "who had died while he was drinking" from a fall and whose body had been discovered two days earlier.

At a concert on November 18th, 2011, Vega performed _Tom's Diner_ as the final song of her set. She noted that it was the 30th anniversary of the song's writing and that she really had no idea who Holden was when she read about his death that morning.

I am trying to write some lyrics
While I'm sitting at the counter
I'm just writing out the first thing
That arises in my noggin...

не знал, как называется, спасибо книге Круза, нашёл

Who is the actor who died when he was drinking?

Always Had the beat stuck in my head for years but I could never find the song

You should have cut off the song sooner, the noise after it is super jarring and obnoxious.

Untamed Heart: Marisa Tomei & Christian Slater

This was a VERY hard song to find

I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in
"It is always
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the counter
To the woman
Who has come in
She is shaking
Her umbrella
And I look
The other way
As they are kissing
Their hellos
And I'm pretending
Not to see them
And instead
I pour the milk
I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor
Who had died
While he was drinking
It was no one
I had heard of
And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies
When I'm feeling
Someone watching me
And so
I raise my head
There's a woman
On the outside
Looking inside
Does she see me?
No, she does not
Really see me
'Cause she sees
Her own reflection
And I'm trying
Not to notice
That she's hitching
Up her skirt
And while she's
Straightening her stockings
Her hair
Has gotten wet
Oh, this rain
It will continue
Through the morning
As I'm listening
To the bells
Of the cathedral
I am thinking
Of your voice
And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began
I finish up my coffee
And it's time to catch the train

Почему я не родилась дочкой Аллы Пугачевой? И зачем родилась я дочкой следова-те-ляаа...

I prefured the original tour of NYC video.

Woooow Very nice song after 8 years this commentary 😁

2019 and this fire with ice🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

Such a great song I've always enjoyed it

Shazam helped me finding this song.

懐かしいな。深夜
MTVJAPAN
観てたよ。
フューチャリングdnaだったかな？

Big up rat pack

Was standing in the corner searchin for my rizla

Give a big salad !!!

Even I don't understand where the lyrics of the song is supposed to take me, I still love the track!!!

"Ricordo mamma che mi chiamava..."

Can someone explain the correlation between the clip and song?

Forever ❤️

TARARARQTRARARARARARATARATARATA

Even if I had no idea what year this track came out, I'd know instantly from the video. It's absolutely dripping 1990!

The two guys are trying to stump and knock off all the Doo Doo Doo Doo off their shoes 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

Hay mis 90s good good

addictive song

What is the sing more cool of this song?

30 years later and it’s still the best one hit wonder song!!!

2019 br?

the do do do do bit is in centuries by fall out boy and let it be me by david guetta and ava max

thank you instagram editors

Спасибо.

This was the first song converted to MP3.
"Karlheinz Brandenburg used a CD recording of Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner" to assess and refine the MP3 compression algorithm. This song was chosen because of its nearly monophonic nature and wide spectral content, making it easier to hear imperfections in the compression format during playbacks. Some refer to Suzanne Vega as "The mother of MP3""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

@jumustube I appreciate your opinion, but I disagree with you. It is pretty well known that this song was used to create Mp3. Cheers! And Merry Christmas!

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@Douglas Oliveira Thank you, my friend. Agradeço seu tempo para comentar!

@Mieka Marie Hodson Thank you for this. I learned a lot from this page. Cheers from Canada!