Luka : μια μουσική ιστορία για την παιδική κακοποίηση 33 χρόνια μετά

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

I think it's because I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud

They only hit until you cry
After that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

Yes, I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
If you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown

Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

And they only hit until you cry
After that, you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

 

 

Suzanne Vega: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

In pop-music circles, Suzanne Vega is known almost entirely for two
songs from the late 1980s: the child-abuse ballad "Luka" and a song that
 launched literally dozens of dance remixes, "Tom's Diner." But Vega has
 been making vital, inventive music the entire time — much of it
folk-based, though her sound has taken many smart detours along the way —
 and is about to put out her first album of original material in seven
years, Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles. The challenge,
then, lies in capturing a snapshot of her career in only four songs.

For this Tiny Desk Concert — performed with her brilliant guitarist and
producer, Gerry Leonard — Vega splits the difference evenly between old
and new, bookending her set with the aforementioned classics and tucking
 two about-to-be-released songs in the middle. Game and good-spirited
throughout, Vega performed "Luka" and "Tom's Diner" as if she hadn't
played them thousands of times before — aided greatly by Leonard, who's
worked extensively with David Bowie and lends these songs an
extraordinary amount of color and texture. (Check out the "bells" he
adds near the end of "Tom's Diner.")

Vega's songwriting gifts haven't waned at any point in her long career,
and the new songs here — taken from a concept album about the way our
world and the spiritual realm intersect — sound as sharp as anything
she's done. It only makes sense that, nearly 30 years after her debut,
she still examines new realms with grace, empathy and an explorer's
spirit. --STEPHEN THOMPSON

Set List
"Luka"
"Crack In The Wall"
"I Never Wear White"
"Tom's Diner

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