mintyy 🍵 · Ode to Tom’s Diner - Papoter et Bavarder Estimated Reading Time: 3 min Dear Suzanne Vega, Thank you for “Tom's Diner”. The piece really follows what seems like a normal morning in such a poetically picturesque way. We follow the narrator (Suzanne? A femme? Unknown?) who has entered a coffee shop to begin their morning. The pace is set where each catchy break is preceded by a line that leaves the listener curious as to what will happen next. The song follows a steady melody up until the end where the rhythm is disrupted by church bells and the line, “I am thinking of your voice.” It makes the whole story appear like a daydream or an apparition. (Shout out to VEGA for adding a beat!) The consistent pattern of lines and breaks is akin to a hum, and the bells bring this person back to the diner where they are thinking about the voice of someone whom I'd imagine is special to the narrator. By the end, we listeners are left wondering if everything before was...
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