Suzanne Vega (geb. 1959)
 
Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song) (1987)
 
I came out of the darkness
Holding one thing:
A small white wooden horse
I'd been holding inside.
 
And when I'm dead,
If you could tell them this:
That what was wood became alive,
What was wood became alive.
 
And in the night the walls disappeared.
In the day they returned.
"I want to be a rider like my father"
Were the only words I could say.
 
And when I'm dead,
If you could tell them this:
That what was wood became alive.
 
Alive...
And I fell under
A moving piece of the sun.
Freedom.
 
I came out of the darkness
Holding one thing.
I know I have this power.
I'm afraid I may be killed.
 
And when I'm dead,
If you could tell them this:
That what was wood became alive,
What was wood became alive.