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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 they can offer no explanation newspapers ask intimate questions what confessions they reach into my head to steal the glory of my story they say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as the can see they can offer no explanation Oooooooooooo I believe fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle "know this child will be able" laughed as my body she lifted "know this child will be gifted with love, with patience and with faith she'll make her way" people see me I'm a challenge to your balance I'm over your heads how I confound you and astound you to know I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as you can see you can offer me no explanation Oooooooooooo I believe fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle "know this child will be able" laughed as she came to my mother "know this child will not suffer" laughed as my body she lifted "know this child will be gifted with love, with patience and with faith she'll make her way" |
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| 2. |
| 6:00 |
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Well, I've walked these streets A virtual stage It seemed to me Makeup on their faces Actors took their places next to me Well, I've walked these streets In a carnival of sights to see All the cheap thrill-seekers The vendors and the dealers They crowded around me Have I been blind? Have I been lost inside myself and my whole mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? Well, I've walked these streets In a spectacle of wealth and poverty In the diamond market The scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me And I've walked these streets In the madhouse asylum they can be Where a wild-eyed mystic prophet on a traffic island stopped And he raved of saving me Have I been blind? Have I been lost inside myself and my whole mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes and play along? Hypnotized, paralyzed by what my eyes have found By what my eyes have seen What they have seen? Have I been blind? Have I been lost? Have I been wrong? Have I been wise? Have I been strong? Have I been hypnotized, mesmerized By what my eyes have found? In that great street carnival Have I been blind? Have I been lost? Have I been wrong? Have I been wise? Have I been strong? Have I been hypnotized, mesmerized By what my eyes have found? In that great street carnival, in that carnival |
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| 3. |
| 2:44 |
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Oooh, 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? Oooh, jealousy Is she bright So well read Are there novels By her bed? Is she the sort You've always said Could satisfy Your head? Oooh, my jealousy Does she talk The way I do Is her voice reminding you Of the promises The little white lies too Sometimes, tell me While she's touching Just by mistake Accidentally do you say my name |
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| 4. |
| 3:58 |
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Go west Paradise is there You'll have all that you can eat Of milk and honey over there You'll be the brightest star The world has ever seen Sun-baked slender heroine Of film and magazine Go west Paradise is there You'll have all that you can eat Of milk and honey over there You'll be the brightest light The world has ever seen The dizzy height of a jet-set life You could never dream Your pale blue eyes Strawberry hair Lips so sweet Skin so fair You're future bright Beyond compare It's rags to riches Over there San Andreas Fault Moved it's fingers Through the ground Earth divided Plates collided Such an awful sound San Andreas Fault Moved its fingers Through the ground Terra cotta shattered And the walls came Tumbling down Oh promised land Oh wicked ground Build a dream Tear it down Oh promised land What a wicked ground Build a dream Watch it all fall down |
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| 5. |
| 4:06 |
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La-la-la-la... 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 to thank you for it La-la-la-la... 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 And I never could have come, this far without you For everything you've done, you know I'm bound I'm bound to thank you for it La-la-la-la... Oh, I want to thank you for so many gifts you gave The love, the tenderness, I wanna thank you I want to thank you for your generosity, the love And the honesty that you gave me I want to thank you show my gratitude My love, and my respect for you, I want to thank you Oh, I want to thank you, thank you; thank you, thank you I want to thank you, thank you; thank you, thank you |
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| 6. |
| 4:53 |
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People down-cast in despair See the dis-illusion everywhere Hoping their bad luck will change It's a little harder everyday People struggle, people fight For the simple pleasures in their life The trouble comes from everywhere It's a little more than you can bear I know that it will hurt I know that it will break your heart The way things are The way they've been And the way they've always been People shallow, self-absorbed See them push and shove for their rewards With nothing else on their minds You can read about it in their eyes People ruthless, people cruel The damage that some people do Full of hatred, full of pride It's enough to make you lose your mind I know that it will hurt I know that it will break your heart The way things are And the way they've been I know that it will hurt I know that it will break your heart The way things are And the way they've been Don't spread the discontent Don't spread the lies Don't make the same mistakes With your own life You know we're all a little low sometimes I know that it will hurt I know that it will break your heart The way things are And the way they've been Don't spread the discontent Don't spread the lies Don't make the same mistakes In your own life And don't disrespect yourself Don't lose your pride And don't think everybody's gonna change their side Oh no |
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| 7. |
| 5:14 |
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It's a pity, it's a crying shame People hold 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 stay little daddy's girl You want to hide from the vicious world outside Don't cry, you know the tears will do no good So dry your eyes Oh, your daddy, he's the iron man battleship wrecked on dry land Your mamma she's a bitter bride She'll never be satisfied, you know And that's not right. But don't cry, you know the tears will do no good So dry your eyes Oh, they told you life is hard misery from the start, it's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful Well, who do you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'cause it's high time that you decide in your own mind I've tried to comfort you I've tried to tell you to be patient They are blind, and they can't see Fortune gonna come one day They're all gonna fade away Your daddy the war machine And your momma the long and suffering Prisoner of what she cannot see For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful So, who will you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'cause it's high time that you decide It's time to make up your own your own state of mind Oh they told you life is long Be thankful when it's done Don't ask for more, be grateful But I tell you life is short Be thankful because Before you know it it will be over 'cause life is sweet, life is also very short life is sweet and life is also very short life is sweet |
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| 3:19 | 
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| 9. |
| 4:48 |
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When I was just a little girl My mamma said to me "Beware of the devil my chld in the dark rocky places he'll keep Beware of the devil my child Beware of his charming ways You'll fall under an evil spell just looking at his beautiful face You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside" "Don't go walking by the riverside alone in the pale moonlight He'll come upon you girl With no earthy body in sight Come up upon you girl and he'll whisper something sweet then take you where the waters rise so high and run so deep" "You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside Build yourself a levee girl When the waters run high" Now when I was just a little girl My mamma said to me "Beware of the devil my child but if by chance you should meet Beware of his cold dark eyes Full of bold and unholy deceit He'll tempt you with a whirling pool of lies and promises he'll deny or that he'll never keep" "You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside Build yourself a levee deep inside You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high" |
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| 5:22 |
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Lately I've been walking all alone through the wind and through the rain Been walking through the streets and finding sweet relief in knowing that it won't be long. Lately it's occurred to me that I've had enough of that and lately I've been satisfied by simple things like breathing in and breathing out Never again, not in this life will I be taken twice Never again, never on your life Will I make that same mistake I can't make it twice Lately it's occurred to me exactly what went wrong I realized I compromised I sacrificed far too much for far too long Never again, not in this life Will I be taken twice Never again, not on your life Will I make that same mistake I can't make it twice Starting out from here today Swear I'm gonna change my ways Once mistaken in this life but never twice |
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| 4:47 |
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Where in hell can you go far from the things that you know far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling it's way about 1,000 miles a day Take one last look behind commit this to memory and mind Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place When you leave keep your heart off of your sleeve Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep Keep me safe, lie with me Stay beside me don't go Don't you go Oh my five & dime queen tell me what have you seen The lust and avarice The bottomless, the cavernous greed Is that what you see Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep Keep me safe, lie with me Stay beside me don't go It's your happiness I want most of all and for that I'd do anything at all Oh mercy me If you want the best of it or the most of it all if there's anything I can do at all Now come on shot gun bride what makes me envy your life Faceless, nameless, innocent blameless and free what's it like to be Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep Keep me safe, lie with me Stay beside me don't go Don't go |
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| 4:25 |
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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 morning And we work all day real hard To buy our little meat and bread Buy sugar, tea, and lard Well, our children Grow up unlearned With no time to go to school Almost before they learn to walk They learn to spin and spoon Well, the folks in town They dress so fine And spend their money free But they would hardly look At a factory hand Who dresses like you or me Would you let them wear Their watches fine Let them wear their gems And pearly strings But when that day Of judgement comes They'll have to share Their pretty things |
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| 13. |
| 5:49 |
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Sally Ann
A woman of beauty a woman of pain in France or Jakarta her shadow's the same you go home with Sally Ann you go home with Sally Ann you go home A woman of kindness with bracelets of jade in China, in Japan choices are made you go home with Sally Ann you go home with Sally Ann you go home A woman of chances with no family or friends in Argentina she knows only men you go home with Sally Ann you go home with Sally Ann you go home A woman of color with debts to be paid in Trenton or Detroit she lives by the blade you go home with Sally Ann you go home with Sally Ann............... You go home |
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Trackback from :: 자기만의 방 :: 2008-02-28 21:58:29
Subject : Natalie Merchant - Kind & generous
