Suzanne Vega - Crack In The Wall lyrics

A crack appeared inside a wall, A door sprang up around it. Each of these so finely drawn I could not believe I found it. A wildish wind blew it open wide, My childish mind followed on outside, And so I found myself among My hearts delight surrounded. A world of wonder lay without, It was all of nature’s calling. With field and forest, clouds and sun Cascades of salt water falling. Heights and valleys, dark ravines Ivy thick and wild, deep and thorny scenes, And yet each thing did love its place In the lap of all of nature’s sprawling. And so and so it goes. I asked the one whose land this was If I might have a token To take with me back to the other side To have and to keep unspoken. I asked three times and was thrice denied. I asked again without my pride And found I’d lost that world I’d lived Returned as one now broken, To a crumb, a rag, a withered leaf In the chilly winds of cold relief I knew myself as I had been, As from a dream awoken. And so and so it goes. But then… a crack appeared inside a wall And a door sprang up around it.