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[ music: John Lombardolyric: Natalie Merchant ] Steep is the water tower painted off blue to match the sky can’t ignore the train night walks in the valley silent you could swear the earth just moved can’t ignore the train dust to be kicked up in the crack faced idle sinister town screen door to [...]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I’m begging of you please don’t take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please don’t take him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your smile is like a breath of spring Your voice is soft [...]
========================= O Come, All Ye Faithful ========================= O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, Come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, born the King of angels; Refrain O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. True God [...]
This was once a city harmony a common theme but these complications now make life a bit uneasy hallowed buildings scrape the sky voices ride the airwaves once a city years gone by will they still be standing in thecenturies ahead going underground little children hiding, bullets never meant for them must there be such [...]
Mercy, mercy,” why didn’t we hear it? “Mercy, mercy,” why did we read it buried on the last page of our morning papers? The plan was drafted, drafted in secret. Gunboats met the red tide, driven to the rum trade for the army that they created. But the bullets were bought by us, it was [...]
In the quiet morning there was much despair and in the hours that followed no one could repair That poor girl tossed by the tides of misfortune Barely here to tell her tale Rolled in on a sea of disaster Rolled out on a mainline rail She once walked tight by my side I’m sure [...]
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine, there’s gotta be a little rain sometimes I could promise you things, Like big diamond rings But if that’s what it takes to hold you I’d as soon as let you go But there’s one thing I want you to [...]
If lust and hate is the candy, if blood and love tastes so sweet, then we give ‘em what they want. Hey, hey, give ‘em what they want. So their eyes are growing hazy ‘cos they wanna turn it on, so their minds are soft and lazy. Well, hey, give ‘em what they want. If [...]
I saw a big star running from me, a world from a record on my bed. Turn the tables on me, what would happen if I fell to the tune of a dreamer, to the tune of my heart? A big start running from me, I saw a world out sunning on my head. Turn [...]
Out through the foggy window there just to see the eyes of my future children looking back at me back through the foggy window on and on miles pass years turn over on and on there from that rolled down window ponies run free cradled protectively there in the greenery somewhere I keep this picture [...]
Even with my eyes closed, Funny how I know it’s harder, it’s harder now. Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always. But like an ocean tide, I’m drawn back inside and I know. Seasons pass like sand inside a glass and nothing, nothing returns. Standing with the friends I’ve [...]
[ music: Natalie Merchant/lyric: Natalie Merchant ] the legs of Maddox kitchen tables my whole life twisted on a lathe in a foreman’s torrent my first English was “faster boy if you want your pay” barking commands loud and simple we could all obey then I was forever pulling silvers rubbed the sawdust always deeper [...]