Knight Moves - Suzanne Vega

Album "Suzanne Vega", 1985

Watch while the queen
In one false move
Turns herself into a pawn

Sleepy and shaken
And watching while the blury night
Turns into a very clear dawn

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

One false move
And a secret prophecy
Well, if you hold it against her,
First hold it up and see
That it's one side stone
One side fire
Standing alone among all men's desire
They want to know

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

And if you wonder
What I am doing
As I am heading
For the sink
I am spitting out all the bitterness
Along with half of my last drink
I am thinking
Of your woman
Who is crying in the hall
It's like drinking gasoline
To quench a thirst
Until there's nothing there left at all

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

"Walk on the blind side"?
Was the answer to the joke
It's said there isn't a political bone
In her body

She would rather be a riddle
But she keeps challenging the future
With a profound lack of history

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

And watch while the queen
In one false move
Turns herself into a pawn

Sleepy and shaken
And watching while the blury night
Turns into a very clear dawn

Do you love me? X5

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• pop
• suzanne
• vega
• knight
• moves
• 1985
• album

[MaikaGoesForAWalk]

shes one of the best thats out there. such an original voice and style.

[trigidey]

You said it. From that point of view this song has that profound description of the queen's characteristics beneath thecold-hearted surface. All in all this song makes me shiver; it is impulsive, but then again, very smooth.

[pagandude1]

how beautiful is this. Ms Vega has a style all of her own. kind of a unique blend of folk and pop music. thanks for loading...

[UpRoaryus]

I think this is the first time I've realized this is a rock waltz. Weird.

[UpRoaryus]

@JefferyWhiganshire Listening again now with this in mind

[UpRoaryus]

@JefferyWhiganshire Fascinating. Thank you! I haven't listened to this album for at least a decade since my (extensive) LP collection has been ignored in the digital era. Regrettably, at that, now that I revisit this after so long. But it is interesting how my own maturity has influenced my perceptions too. I performed a dance that I choreographed to this song in my senior year of high school in 1990. Wonder how this knowledge would have influenced that if had known then...

[monkeygoesfishing]

My mother liked this years ago, and Mamas are often right :)

[JefferyWhiganshire]

Not sure how useful it is but I found this:

Suzanne explaing the meaning of the title "Knight Moves":

"The next song [Knight Moves] [...] is called like that because the person I was writing it for was behaving in such a way that he was taking one step forward and then he'd take two to the side, and then he'd take one step back and then he'd take two to the side..."

In concert, London School of Economics, England, October 24, 1985

[elenore88]

she's such a good songwriter

[MrMarkl1000]

reason why i bought this very album

[KennyRough]

/watch?v=Mjt39zLWVRU&ob=av2e 

[thecarpy]

goosebumps