My Name Is….?!
Question: My Name Is…!.!?
“ Luca, I live on the second floor “ !. Okay so I’m having a dispute about this song!.!. I think it’s a Suzanne Vega (!?) track!.
Anyway, my op is the lyrics might be about child abuse, I vaguely remember it was used for several NSPPC/Childline ads!. My opposition thinks it’s about a beaten woman!? I’m not googling the lyrics- thought I’d leave this one to the yahoo answers community!. What’s this song about !?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Anyway, my op is the lyrics might be about child abuse, I vaguely remember it was used for several NSPPC/Childline ads!. My opposition thinks it’s about a beaten woman!? I’m not googling the lyrics- thought I’d leave this one to the yahoo answers community!. What’s this song about !?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Vega has said that she wrote "Luka" after pondering the idea for the song for months!. An elliptical tale of child abuse set to a disarmingly cheerful melody (arranged for the most part by the keyboardist Anton Sanko), it is a monologue sung by the young, eponymous victim!. The child attempts to deny and rationalize his situation and to keep at bay the suspicions of neighbors who may have seen his bruises or heard sounds of violence emanating from his family's apartment!. "I didn't want "Luka" to be a self-pitying song about a boy sitting on a stoop feeling miserable", Vega told Anthony Scaduto!. "That kid had a dignity, as kids do, and that's what I wanted to come out!. The strength, the backbone!.!.!. All I wanted to do was reveal his point of view!. [The song is] unresolved, frustrating, like it is in real life!. By leaving it ambiguous, it makes people think twice about it!."
During her conversation with Bill DeMain, Vega described another aspect of her approach in writing "Luka": "The audience in the song is the neighbor!. So it was kind of writing a play!. First of all, how do you introduce the character!? You do that by saying, 'My name is Luka!. I live on the second floor!.' And then you get the audience involved, saying, "I live upstairs from you!. So you've seen me before!.' You're incriminating the audience!. You're pointing the finger without really doing it!. You're unfolding this story that can't really be told and you're involving the audience in it and that was what I wanted to do!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
During her conversation with Bill DeMain, Vega described another aspect of her approach in writing "Luka": "The audience in the song is the neighbor!. So it was kind of writing a play!. First of all, how do you introduce the character!? You do that by saying, 'My name is Luka!. I live on the second floor!.' And then you get the audience involved, saying, "I live upstairs from you!. So you've seen me before!.' You're incriminating the audience!. You're pointing the finger without really doing it!. You're unfolding this story that can't really be told and you're involving the audience in it and that was what I wanted to do!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
it's about child abuse!.
quote from SUzanne Vega herself, "I have done a lot of work for organisations devoted to children in one way or another, especially since "Luka", my song about child abuse, became a hit in 1987!. "
here's the lyrics!.!.!.
one sad song
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
And 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
Well, 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 [X3]Www@Enter-QA@Com
quote from SUzanne Vega herself, "I have done a lot of work for organisations devoted to children in one way or another, especially since "Luka", my song about child abuse, became a hit in 1987!. "
here's the lyrics!.!.!.
one sad song
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
And 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
Well, 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 [X3]Www@Enter-QA@Com
Yep you're right on both counts (artist and meaning)!.
also, search for it on You Tube as I'm sure the video is on there and, if I remember correctly, it doesn't leave much of a grey area as to the content!.
Great song thoughWww@Enter-QA@Com
also, search for it on You Tube as I'm sure the video is on there and, if I remember correctly, it doesn't leave much of a grey area as to the content!.
Great song thoughWww@Enter-QA@Com
You're right it's about a child whose being abused, I actually never realised it was about a child, I just thought it was someone being abused, not necessarily a child!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Here is the place where you can find the video:
http://www!.vh1!.com/video/play!.jhtml!?vid=!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
http://www!.vh1!.com/video/play!.jhtml!?vid=!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I would say child abuse as it says "they will only hit you" not "he will only hit me" and yes it is Suzanne Vega!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It is by Suzanne Vega and is about child abuse!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Yes Suzanne Vega and it was about a child being beaten not a woman!.Www@Enter-QA@Com