This song is a rather-simple narrative the singer relays from a first-person perspective while sitting in the titular “Tom’s Diner”. And she is taking on the role of a male patron while doing so. He finds himself visiting “the...
The subject of this song, Luka, is a person who is currently suffering from child abuse. The unique angle this song takes is that instead of Suzanne Vega singing about him from a third-person perspective, she instead adopts...