Suzanne Vega Sings "Pornographer's Dream" in 2007

Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album release by New York-based singer/songwriter and musician Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and is also her first for Blue Note Records. It was released on July 17, 2007. Beauty & Crime won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on February 11, 2008.





"She's a pornographer's dream," he said
I knew what he meant
But it made me imagine what kind of a dream he would have
That hadn't been spent

Would he still dream of the thigh, of the flesh upon high
What he saw so much of?
Wouldn't he dream of the thing that he never could quite
Get the touch of?

Out of his hands
Over his head
Out of his reach
Under this real life
Hidden in veils
Covered in silk
Dreaming of what might be

Out of his hands
Over his head
Out of his reach
Under this real life
Hidden in veils
Dreaming of mystery

Bettie Page is still the rage
With her legs and leather
She turns to tease the camera and please us at home
And we let her

Who's to know what she'll show
Of herself, in what measure?
If what she reveals, or what she conceals
Is the key to our pleasure

Out of our hands
Over our heads
Out of our reach
Under this real life
Hidden in veils
Covered in silk
Dreaming of what might be

It's out of our hands
Over our heads
Out of our reach
Under this real life
Hidden in veils
Dreaming of mystery

Under this real life
Dreaming of what might be

Under this real life
Dreaming of mystery

"She's a pornographer's dream," he said
I knew what he meant
And it made me imagine what kind of a dream he would have