She is poignantly reflective of my life....I love her. Especially "My name is Luka" which encapsulates my early days in college.... I'm going to Glasgow, Scotland to hear her live in concert later this year! So grateful to her! ❤ PS If anyone is going to go to this concert also, please let me know... I don't know anyone in that part of the UK! Blessings All.....🥰
im an artist that wanted to be a musician, it never happened. But this song is when art meets music. Absolutely sublime. I just go back to it again and again as it is perfect thank you Suzanne Vega, you are an artist and a musician.
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?!
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.
One of Suzanne Vega's many best and fabulous songs and tingling down the spine poignant..and beautiful....cold against the skin yet warm...Unforgettable...
Wept like a child upon first listen, hauntingly innocent and pure expression of melancholy by the one and only Suzanne Vega. This song alone cemented her as one of the most gifted singer-songwriters I've ever come across.
You hear things that make a lot of money or get loads of likes on UA-cam and then you hear this and you know that there is such a thing as 3D music, as an aural sculpture. That some people can make things of such beauty you can only wonder.
Found it again, right, @AJP VIenna! I saw her perform this in the L.A. area in front of maybe 50 people when she was just getting her career started. Blew me completely away, I was in awe. That was a long time ago but still incredibly vivid in my mind.
Singer-songwriters had long fallen out of fashion by then,compared to their heyday in the late 60s and the earlier part of the 70s,so this felt like a bit of a time capsule even then.
On a dog day winter's afternoon free to do what I like with after a busy early and middle to the week,back here listening to this again and other songs from winter 1985-86. Volume up a bit,cuppa in hand,standing in the doorway to the garden watching the seasons.
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.
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.
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.
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. 💝💝💝
Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am watching you I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand Turning in your hand Small blue thing Turning in your hand
Where are you? I am lost without you...so many years on and I am still scatterimg like light and I am turning in a hand that I cannot find,,...Still I am scattering like light ..and yet without you.. I am an even smaller blue thing....You have probably forgotten me...Such is life...
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?
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!
+N0eWats0n I mentioned this interpretation in one of my classes and a student told me he heard Suzanne Vega explain the song the same way in one of her concerts!
It's great you can share this points of view with your students. I'm a teacher too, so I can perfectly understand you. Suzanne Vega's song are pure poetry! She's got a great gift to explain abstact situations in such a fancy and exciting way. Greetings from Mexico !
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).
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
First time ever hearing this song, a true masterpiece reminiscent of the othet great American songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot Paul Simon and Don Mc Clean
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.
+Bob Dobalina And I'm not saying that in a mean way, but your comment is so condescending. It's not because people are addicted to technology that they are not human anymore. Even though I can relate to what you say, I don't believe the actual generation is useless, rather the industry that influences it. People are just being manipulated by bigger organizations, but they are not useless. If you think like that, then you just as well give up your humanity, but most of all your compassion towards others which is primordial. And why would it bother you so much? You lost all your friends and family to cellphones? The world is still alive, you just have to chose to be conscious and not fall in the disbeliefs of ego, there is no point in showing hate toward a "generation" or a population, maybe you can try to contaminate people around you in being more open to the world and if they aren't then it is their problem wouldn't you think?
+Bob Dobalina you are right .. have you seen the movie "They live" by Carpenter? Have you looked up at the chemtrails in the sky? They are going to transforma us into a sort of ... teletubbies
Is this the version that was out as a single in the UK in winter 1985-86,like Marlena on the Wall? Hearing those two songs on the radio back then was the first time I heard Suzanne Vega's music - and it must be absolute donkey's years since I last heard this one.
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
I haven't heard this for at least 20 years. It is as much a masterpiece today as it was back then.
Agreed💙
Yes, exactly
Chills in 1985, chills in 2021… 😎🤠
What a most beautiful, tender, deep song this is
She is poignantly reflective of my life....I love her. Especially "My name is Luka" which encapsulates my early days in college.... I'm going to Glasgow, Scotland to hear her live in concert later this year! So grateful to her! ❤ PS If anyone is going to go to this concert also, please let me know... I don't know anyone in that part of the UK! Blessings All.....🥰
One of her best songs and all her songs are brilliant.
im an artist that wanted to be a musician, it never happened. But this song is when art meets music. Absolutely sublime. I just go back to it again and again as it is perfect thank you Suzanne Vega, you are an artist and a musician.
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?!
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*totally ..?If I'm correct, she studied English After 'giving up' on becoming a [professional] dancer..X*
@@benuitgekeken8328 *OMG :-) / But then..lately i´ve been thinking ,,, maybe i would want to change my name..~*
i had the blessing to do a songwriting workshop with her. very grateful to have crossed paths with one of my life teachers!
This songs reminds me of me my youth, my ex, the Earth and my soul.
Suzanne vocalises how I experience myself in this world. I havent listened this for about 20 years. I find new depths in it even now.
Had a Chance to see her play in Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿 Years ago, her voice was heaven ❤ and oh boy the Band was Sublime Thanks.
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.
Right on
Awesome
@Brent Reid you speak the truth for many of us. "Scattered like light" 😢
Simp
Beautiful visualisation to one of the most entrancing songs ever written.
One of Suzanne Vega's many best and fabulous songs and tingling down the spine poignant..and beautiful....cold against the skin yet warm...Unforgettable...
Wept like a child upon first listen, hauntingly innocent and pure expression of melancholy by the one and only Suzanne Vega.
This song alone cemented her as one of the most gifted singer-songwriters I've ever come across.
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.♡
You hear things that make a lot of money or get loads of likes on UA-cam and then you hear this and you know that there is such a thing as 3D music, as an aural sculpture.
That some people can make things of such beauty you can only wonder.
This brings such memories of a time that is lost but remembered:) in a good memory
Not lost. You've found it again.....
Found it again, right, @AJP VIenna! I saw her perform this in the L.A. area in front of maybe 50 people when she was just getting her career started. Blew me completely away, I was in awe. That was a long time ago but still incredibly vivid in my mind.
Same☺️
Singer-songwriters had long fallen out of fashion by then,compared to their heyday in the late 60s and the earlier part of the 70s,so this felt like a bit of a time capsule even then.
On a dog day winter's afternoon free to do what I like with after a busy early and middle to the week,back here listening to this again and other songs from winter 1985-86. Volume up a bit,cuppa in hand,standing in the doorway to the garden watching the seasons.
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.
LEAST u found her..
One of my all time favorites. She was my sony walkman voice when I backpacked through Europe in the 80's. Beautiful memories.
absolutely beautiful crafted song:)
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.
Pure Poetry ! Fascinating Song !
Suzanne Vega is truly a genius! In my opinion, this song can be either totally exhilarating or tear renderingly sad, depending on how one looks at it.
Pure melancholy ❤
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.
Great insight
A transition of soulful harmony and magical musical notes 🎵
Amazing i still know every word
The most beautiful colour...and photos...and song. Today I am a small blue thing made of glass...wonderful.
wonderful images to a brilliant artist, and this song is so beautiful
This and straight lines
Lovely song! Very well done. Thank You.
This and In Liverpool are my favorite songs by Suzanne!
Yup me too
Our Suzanne
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,
Today I am a small blue thing
Like a marble or an eye
With my knees against my mouth
I am perfectly round
I am watching you
I am cold against your skin
You are perfectly reflected
I am lost inside your pocket
I am lost against your fingers
I am falling down the stairs
I am skipping on the sidewalk
I am thrown against the sky
I am raining down in pieces
I am scattering like light
Scattering like light
Scattering like light
Today I am a small blue thing
Made of China, made of glass
I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink
I am turning in your hand
Turning in your hand
I am cold against your skin
You are perfectly reflected
I am lost inside your pocket
I am lost against your fingers
I am falling down the stairs
I am skipping on the sidewalk
I am thrown against the sky
I am raining down in pieces
I am scattering like light
Scattering like light
Scattering like light
Today I am a small blue thing
Made of China, made of glass
I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink
I am turning in your hand
Turning in your hand
Turning in your hand
Small blue thing
Turning in your hand
Where are you? I am lost without you...so many years on and I am still scatterimg like light and I am turning in a hand that I cannot find,,...Still I am scattering like light ..and yet without you.. I am an even smaller blue thing....You have probably forgotten me...Such is life...
UNBELIEVABLE
This song was my first love.
I just came here to listen to this song but my eyes got lost in those beautiful pictures. They're very well selected, congratulations!
One of those songs for taking things slow and reflecting on life,the universe and everything. Nice pictures,too.
It's so beautiful
Mother 🌍 is a marble and a blue eye in the galaxy - she’s fragile and hostile and beautiful
Reminds me of William Blake’s to see a world poem.
Beautiful.
Beautiful video with a beautiful song. Thank you!
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?
A beautiful song....
Thank you for posting
A forgotten favorite
Nice visuals too
this track with Suzzane's voice is part of Heritage of Humanity
beautiful version with alternative vocal to the album version..
Another beautiful track....
Absolutely perfect images to put together for this video, Beatriz. Nicely done.
It's so sad 😔😢
Universe gives birth
to small blue planet,
which in turn
nurtures child
within a teardrop
of ocean
magnifique voice for melodie souvenir alliance femme precise de guitar and grace :merci madam :
What a love song
Una cosa semplicemente meravigliosa.
Thank you Jennifer Serti! A smart and very on point comment.
Wunderbar!!! :-)))
It's a masterpiece ♥️
I am scattering like light
Scattering like light
Scattering like light
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!
+Berel Dov Lerner Such a philosophical and inspiring comment !
+N0eWats0n I mentioned this interpretation in one of my classes and a student told me he heard Suzanne Vega explain the song the same way in one of her concerts!
It's great you can share this points of view with your students. I'm a teacher too, so I can perfectly understand you. Suzanne Vega's song are pure poetry! She's got a great gift to explain abstact situations in such a fancy and exciting way. Greetings from Mexico !
+N0eWats0n Greetings right back at you from Israel!
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).
I saw her still in splendid shape last Sunday
water is life like earth is our heart. i am with you
Travis Yirka love 😍
This song is enigmatic, beautiful and somewhat disturbing.
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
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤
she's the first star who wrote to me
bellissimo !!!!
Really nice.
Merci ❤️🗝️❗
First time ever hearing this song, a true masterpiece reminiscent of the othet great American songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot Paul Simon and Don Mc Clean
Gordon is Canadian
💚😔 "I am turning in your hand, turning in your hand"
very beautiful! ♥
Merci
100 % beautiful
heard this at burger king and soundhounded it
heard this at mcdonalds and shazamed it
💙💙💙
Wordsmith
like a Smurf
tune...
Bravo im a pilipino
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.
+Bob Dobalina Your generation created ours ...
+Bob Dobalina And I'm not saying that in a mean way, but your comment is so condescending. It's not because people are addicted to technology that they are not human anymore. Even though I can relate to what you say, I don't believe the actual generation is useless, rather the industry that influences it. People are just being manipulated by bigger organizations, but they are not useless. If you think like that, then you just as well give up your humanity, but most of all your compassion towards others which is primordial. And why would it bother you so much? You lost all your friends and family to cellphones? The world is still alive, you just have to chose to be conscious and not fall in the disbeliefs of ego, there is no point in showing hate toward a "generation" or a population, maybe you can try to contaminate people around you in being more open to the world and if they aren't then it is their problem wouldn't you think?
+Bob Dobalina you are right .. have you seen the movie "They live" by Carpenter? Have you looked up at the chemtrails in the sky? They are going to transforma us into a sort of ... teletubbies
I am 22 and I hate the iPhone generation so much
No, you don't. Too young to hate. You will see......
probably IRKS the livin shit outta you though
Fine!
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
Is this the version that was out as a single in the UK in winter 1985-86,like Marlena on the Wall? Hearing those two songs on the radio back then was the first time I heard Suzanne Vega's music - and it must be absolute donkey's years since I last heard this one.
@@rjjcms1 Suzanne seems to be more popular in Britain than America lol
tremendous, even though the original is better.
❤️
heard this at kfc and google sound searched it
Jsem malá modrá věc.
כשאני מקשיב לשיר הזה אני נהיה בן אדם אחר
Like a marble
Or an eye
xxx
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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
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Why do i find this song so weird like come on small blue thing like a marble a marble is not even blue nor a eye like omg
So there are no blue eyes? Hmm
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