The best songs are often observational, and Suzanne Vega's observations that rainy morning at Tom's Diner tell so much more than the words indicate at our first listen. She tells us subtle details about her own life, the diner, it's employees, it's patrons. She has a job, or least somewhere to go after her shot of caffeine. The man pouring the coffee plays favorites, she tells us. She is trying to mind her own business, but her eyes wander inside and outside the goings-on in Tom's Diner.(full article)
