Gun Shy Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: J.C.Lombardo & Robert Buck ] There was light and atomic fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of black rain Cement seared shawdow traces Remini...Read Full Lyrics

In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries 'til awakened by a white man's cry: "This is the Eden I was to find." There were lands to be charted and to be claimed f...Read Full Lyrics

[ music: Natalie Merchant/words: Natalie Merchant ] To your common sense firm arguments I won't listen to your voice of reason trying to change my mind. I mind my feelings and n...Read Full Lyrics

I see the leaves of autumn changing falling turning what was green I see a door standing open, open to curiosity we could be together tear It all apart would you ever notice what w...Read Full Lyrics

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother and the tears she cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in our little world that hated and that dared to drag him down. ...Read Full Lyrics

It crawls on his back, won't ever let him be. Stares at the walls until the cinder blocks can breathe. His eyes have gone away, escaping over time. He rules a crowded nation inside...Read Full Lyrics

If you intend to live again, then open your eyes and don't pretend you're feeling there's nothing worth believing. God, if you persist you'll die like this, and wither in the midst...Read Full Lyrics

[ Merchant ] [ cello: Larry Corbett/violin: Bruce Dukov/viola: Pamela Goldsmith/violin: Ralph Morrison (quartet arranged and conducted by Paul Buckmaster) ] To think of my task ...Read Full Lyrics

[ music: Natalie Merchant/words: Natalie Merchant ] [ musical arrangement: Jason Osborn/first violin: Krista Bennion Feeney/second violin: Mitsuru Tsubota/viola: Louise Schulman/c...Read Full Lyrics

[ music: Traditional/lyric: arranged by 10, 000 Maniacs ] On one morning In the month of May When all the birds Were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray Across the fields at brea...Read Full Lyrics