Once A City Lyrics

[ music: John Lombardo/lyric: Natalie Merchant ] Lineage closed Dissolved In it's birth Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As techno atrocities Laps...Read Full Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Steve Gustafson ] In the cruel garrison of affection If worth of lore is true You know the face of a temptress Pit viper A witch or enchantres...Read Full Lyrics

"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 r...Read Full Lyrics

Tell me what's gone wrong. I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but when I turn it on -- dry as paper. Call the neighbors. Who's to blame for what's going on? In the dark withou...Read Full Lyrics

Oh my dear friend My dear friend Giorgio How has this time Breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios Dauntly jaunt about through nostal...Read Full Lyrics

On bended knee I've looked through every window then. Touched the bottom, The night a sleepless day instead; A day when love came, Came easy like what's lost now found. Beneath a b...Read Full Lyrics

[ music: John Lombardo & Robert Buck/lyric: Natalie Merchant ] Power Dizzy with it stumble Detail A chance for us to quarrel Anger My head is shaken violent If I could calm or re...Read Full Lyrics

Something was pulling me without knowing what was leading me on: Your shining light. But you're unaware your shining light is even on. In my darkest hour the only way to bring the ...Read Full Lyrics

Music by 10, 000 Maniacs - Lyrics by Mary Ramsey & John Lombardo When the day ends And church bells are ringing When the valley is shroudedin snow, When you're feeling that hope so...Read Full Lyrics

There like a feather you fell someone's heaven above me floating So fickle tempting me teasing my ways thrown from Its clutches I struggle to free what escapes me Absalom hanging l...Read Full Lyrics