Notes:
"What I was thinking of was a real undertow. What would an undertow say if it were going to sing a song? Which seems rather simplistic or childlike, but it was a fascinating idea to me.
[...]
The lines I like best are "I wanted to learn all the secrets from the edge of a knife, from the point of a needle, from a diamond, from a bullet," because I'm always trying to learn the secrets from the edge of a knife; I'm always trying to condense and become more economical. It holds true for the writing, and it also hold true for my characters. I intend for a lot of my songs to have many layers of meaning."
The Cutting Edge of Folk from Bullet In Flight, originally published in Clockwatch Review Volume 4, No. 2, 7-14-87/8-9-87 by Ronald J. Rindo and James Plath http://www.suzannevega.com/about/1987/clockwatch.htm
"Undertow" became the name of the Official
Suzanne Vega fan club, and internet mailing list, in 1994. It
exists now as an internet Message Board at: http://suzannevega.com/undertow/
[Ed.]
