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VERSURI NATALIE MERCHANT
| Natalie Merchant - After The Gold Rush |
| Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the |
| Natalie Merchant - Beloved Wife |
| You were the love
for certain of my life
you were simply my beloved wife
I don't know for certain
how I'll live my life
now alone without my beloved wife
my beloved wife
I can't believe
I'v |
| Natalie Merchant - Break Your Heart |
| Oh people downcast in despair
See the disillusion everywhere
Hoping their bad luck will change
Gets a little harder everyday
People struggle
People fight for the simple pleasures in their
life
The t |
| Natalie Merchant - Build A Levee |
| When I was just a little girl my mamma said to me
Beware of the the devil my child in the dark
rocky places he'll keep.
Beware of the devil my child. Beware of his
charming ways.
You'll fall under a s |
| Natalie Merchant - Cowboy Romance |
| It's a Saturday afternoon romance
between a cowboy and a fool
a drunken meet up
in a crude saloon
a poor Rocky Mountain town
he's a scoundrel and
she's no pearl
together they are two lovers c |
| Natalie Merchant - Dust Bowl |
| Dust Bowl
I should know to leave them home. They
follow me through the store with
these toys I can't afford. Kids, take them back,
you know better than that.
Dolls that talk, astronauts, T.V. ga |
| Natalie Merchant - Effigy |
| I'm an effigy
A parody of
Who I appear to be
Put your flaming torches under me
I'm an effigy
A parody of
Who I appear to be
Put your flaming torches under me
I'm an effigy
A parody of
Who I appea |
| Natalie Merchant - Gun Shy |
| Gun Shy
I always knew that you would take yourself
so far from home as soon as,
and as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of
your hair by the Army issue
green, for the past eight weeks I c |
| Natalie Merchant - I May Know The Word |
| I may know the word
but not say it
I may know the truth
but not face it
I may hear a sound
a whisper sacred and profound
but turn my head
indifferent
I may know the word
but not say it
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| Natalie Merchant - Jealousy |
| Jealousy
O, jealousy
is she fine
so well bred
the perfect girl
a social deb?
is she the sort
you've always thought
could make you
what you're not?
o, jealousy
is she bright
so well r |
| Natalie Merchant - Kind And Generous |
| You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how
you keep on giving
For your kindness I'm in debt to you
For your selflessness, my admiration
For everything you've done, you know I'm bound,
I'm bound |
| Natalie Merchant - Life Is Sweet |
| It's a pity
It's a crying shame
He pulled you down again
How painful it must be
To bruise so easily
Inside
It’s a pity
It’s a downright crime
It happens all the time
You want to s |
| Natalie Merchant - Motherland |
| Where in the hell can you go far from the things
that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps
crawling its way about 1,000 miles a day?
Take one last look behind, commit this to memory
and m |
| Natalie Merchant - Put The Law On You |
| Do I have to put the law on you baby for all the
wicked things you do?
Am I gonna have to put the law on you baby?
That was not what I wanted to do.
Do I have to put the law on you baby to try
And |
| Natalie Merchant - Saint Judas |
| Saddle up the horses and wear your Sunday best.
Sing your Sacred Harp, you be holier than the
rest.
Fill up the room with a grand and thunderous song
Let it rattle out the windows, let it spill out on |
| Natalie Merchant - Space Oddity |
| Space Oddity
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may |
| Natalie Merchant - The Gulf Of Araby |
| Words and music by Katell Keineg
If you could fill a veil with shells from
Killiney's shore
And sweet talk in a tongue that is no more
If wishful thought could bridge
The Gulf of Araby
Between what is |
| Natalie Merchant - The Letter |
| If I ever write this letter
the pages I could write
but I don't know where to send it
you have vanished
heaven knows where you live
heaven only knows
if I ever write this letter
bitter words |
| Natalie Merchant - The Worst Thing |
| So you're in love, that's so good for you.
Live it up girl 'cause it never lasts long.
It's heaven for now but not for long.
It's gonna hurt you, it's going to make you feel
so bad.
Once I could lo |
| Natalie Merchant - Thick As Thieves |
| Remember how it all began
the apple and the fall of man
the price we pay
so the people say
Down the path of shame it led us
dare to bite the hand that fed us
fairy tale the moral end
wheel of fortun |
| Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire |
| This house is on fire!
Kick off your boots, come sit a spell.
Listen to me worry, come and listen well.
All you better best come and lean in boys, I don't
dare raise my voice.
I've been sitting her |
| Natalie Merchant - Where I Go |
| Climbing under
a barbed wire fence
by the railroad ties
climbing over
the old stone wall
I am bound for the riverside
well I go to the river
to soothe my mind
ponder over
the crazy days o |
| Natalie Merchant - Wonder |
| Doctors have come
from distant cities
just to see me
stand over my bed
disbelieving what they're seeing
they say I must be one of the wonders
of god's own creation
and as far as the can see t |
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