Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
Went down to the beach (to play one day)
And Maggie discovered a shell that sang
So sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
Milly b...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
Take a look at my body
Look at my hands
There's so much here that I don't understand
Your face-saving promises
Whispered like prayers
I don't need them
'Cause I've been treated so ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
Maggie said
Dig one more shallow grave before I'm dead
Maggie said
I'm just lookin' for a place that I can lay my weary head
There's no perfect end
Just time to leave
Maggi...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
Oh lately I've been walkin' all alone
Through the wind and through the rain
Been walking through these ...
And knowin' that it won't be long
Oh lately it's occurred to me
That I'v...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
There's a land beyond the riverthat we call the sweet forever And we'll only reach that shore by faith's decreeone by one we'll gain the portalsthere to dwell with the immortalswhe...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
Ophelia was a bride of God
A novice Carmelite,
In sister cells, the cloister bells,
Tolled on her wedding night
Ophelia was the rebel girl,
A blue-stockinged suffragette
Who remedi...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
I had a silver penny
And an apricot tree
And I said to the sailor
On the white quay
Sailor O sailor
Will you bring me
If I give you my penny
And my apricot tree
'A fez ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
A bomb went off this morning raining bodies on TV
They are blaming the insurgents; they are blocking off the streets
And the smoke is rising slowly from the barrel of a gun
The ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
Well, I lived in a town
Way down south
By the name of Owensboro
And I worked in a mill
With the rest of the "trash"
As we're often called
As you know
Well, we rise up early
In the...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant
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 yo...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Natalie Merchant