Suzanne Vega - Headshots Lyrics

The sign said Headshots
And that was all.
A picture of a boy
And a number you could call.
Two eyes in the shade.
A mouth so sad and small.
Strange the way a shadow
Can fall across the wall
And make the difference
In what you see.
Ah...

He's just a poster, but
He's everywhere.
A face under a streetlamp
Ripped and hanging in the air.
Turn the corner
And he's still there
Watching all the people
Who are passing unaware.
Is there a judgement
In what he sees?
Ah...

On a day
As cold
And gray
As today.

The sign says Head-Shots.
It's all I see.
A boy becomes the picture
Of guilt and sympathy.
And so I think of you
In memory.
Of the days we were together
And I knew that you loved me.
That was the difference
In what we see.
That's history.
Ah...