What makes this lyric great? Luka – Suzanne Vega

I loved the lyric of Suzanne Vegas Luka already when I heard it in the late ’80s. It had so much angst that I could identify myself with it even though I was not even close to being in the situation Luka is in, in the song. The first few years I listened to it I thought this was about a child living on the second floor that wasn’t allowed by his/her parents to play...