Is this when you have "arrived??"

I find Suzanne Vega's Luka is a tear jerker...you really feel for the tough but physically weaker woman being victimized by the bigger man. Yet she has courage - "Don't ask me", she says - knowing probably that her children might suffer if she involves police/social workers...in essence a terrible trap where she endures abuse for fear of escalation of violence and to protect her children who may still love their Dad (as all kids do)...sadly it happens all the time.

The story in the news from a small Austrian town is utterly horrific and repulsive...and probably something only a man would be capable of!

It was tough to feel anything for the Luka song as it was often sandwiched between such classics as Cindy Laupers "Girls just wanna have fun" and Rockwells
"I always feel like somebodys watching me"

I have several Lp's of hers that are good Coffee house music but not that album....kinda thankfully!

To me, "Alone Again, Naturally" and Dan Fogelberg's "Leader of the Band" are two very sad songs with the former being the saddest I've heard.

To me, "Alone Again, Naturally" and Dan Fogelberg's "Leader of the Band" are two very sad songs with the latter being one of the saddest I've heard.

I have several Lp's of hers that are good Coffee house music but not that album....kinda thankfully!

Understandable. I agree about the Coffee house angle.

A movie that explores similar themes is "Dear Frankie" directed by a woman ( no surprise there ) - again a tear jerker. Some men can't help responding to the damsel in distress. Others like to abuse them. Strange world.