I'd like to help you doctor
Yes I really really would
But the din in my head
It's too much and it's no good
I'm standing in a windy tunnel
Shouting through the roar
And I'd like to give the information
You're asking for
But blood makes noise
It's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise
And I can't really hear you
In the thickening of fear
I think that you might want to know
The details and the facts
But there's something in my blood
Denies the memory of the acts
So just forget it Doc.
I think it's really
Cool that you're concerned
But we'll have to try again
After the silence has returned
'Cause blood makes noise
It's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise
And I can't really hear you
In the thickening of fear
Blood makes noise
Yes I really really would
But the din in my head
It's too much and it's no good
I'm standing in a windy tunnel
Shouting through the roar
And I'd like to give the information
You're asking for
But blood makes noise
It's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise
And I can't really hear you
In the thickening of fear
I think that you might want to know
The details and the facts
But there's something in my blood
Denies the memory of the acts
So just forget it Doc.
I think it's really
Cool that you're concerned
But we'll have to try again
After the silence has returned
'Cause blood makes noise
It's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise
And I can't really hear you
In the thickening of fear
Blood makes noise
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They kept asking me over and over again why I did it, and I couldn't answer them not only because I couldn't hear them, but also because I was so fucked up mentally that I myself didn't really know. Sorry for the downer-ish topic. But I felt it related a lot to the song. BTW, I'm all good now :-D
The din in her head must be something worse than her explanation of a simple ringing ear.
Suzanne Vega at The Learning Annex, 1995
"And it's really a song about not being able to communicate with someone because of feeling anxiety and fear. That's what that song is about in a nutshell." Suzanne Discusses Each Song on Tried and True september, 1998
what do you think about the blood makes noise?! I think maybe she saw some horrible things (involving alot of blood) and the noise that it makes is the din in her head...
They kept asking me over and over again why I did it, and I couldn't answer them not only because I couldn't hear them, but also because I was so fucked up mentally that I myself didn't really know. Sorry for the downer-ish topic. But I felt it related a lot to the song. BTW, I'm all good now :-D
"I think that you might want to know
The details and the facts
But there's something in my blood
Denies the memory of the acts"
tells me.