Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Suzanne Vega – lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Jon Gordon – electric guitar
Paul Dugan – bass
C.P. Roth – synthesizers
Steve Addabbo – backing vocals
The song was written by Suzanne Vega. Produced by Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye, recorded at Celestial Sound, New York City, late 1984.
Note: “Small Blue Thing” was released as a single in the UK in 1986 and became one of Vega’s most admired early compositions — a surrealist meditation on vulnerability and love, picturing the narrator as an object “like a marble or an eye.” C.P. Roth’s warm synthesizer tones are particularly prominent on this track, intertwining with Vega’s fingerpicked guitar in a way that was strikingly original for the mid-1980s folk-pop landscape.
Suzanne Vega – Small Blue Thing Lyrics
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
Like a marble
Or an eye
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
Turning in your hand
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