Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Suzanne Vega
Canonical path: /suzanne-vega/solitaire
Related lyric paths: 6
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Solitaire
Read Solitaire lyrics by Suzanne Vega on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Solitaire
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Black on the red and the red on the black.
It's a tic of a tired mind.
Come and sit down, won't you try your luck.
See if you unwind.
Never use your threes and twos.
Follow superstition.
Otherwise you are going to lose.
Compulsion makes you listen.
Take what's wrong, and make it go right.
Weave it like a prayer.
Wonder if you you'll spend the night?
Playing solitaire?
Do it again, when you find you're all done.
Like an idiot savant.
Shuffle up your luck. You see, you almost won.
Now wrestle down what you want.
Jack on the Queen, and the ten on the Jack.
It's a happy repetition.
You and your fate in a kind of check-mate.
And you are your only competition.
Take what's wrong, and make it go right.
Weave it like a prayer.
Wonder if you you'll spend the night?
Playing solitaire?
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Suzanne Vega performs "Solitaire", and this lyric page sits inside the Suzanne Vega catalog on LyroVerse.
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