good music collector on Instagram: "When Suzanne Vega released Luka in 1987, the song quickly became one of her signature works. With its gentle folk-pop sound and deceptively simple lyrics, the track climbed charts around the world, reaching the Top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Yet beneath the melodic surface lay a subject that was rarely spoken about in mainstream music at the time: child abuse. The song is told from the perspective of a young boy named Luka, who lives “upstairs from you.” In t