[ Natalie Merchant ] [ other voice: Michael Stipe ] A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig 500 men with axes and they all dig for me" A l...

Jenny Jenny you don't know the nights I hide Below a second story room To whistle you down The man who's let to divvy up Time is a miser He's got a silver coin...

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...

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...

[ original version by REM ] Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not eno...

Don't talk, I will listen Don't talk, you keep your distance for I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies, so take you poison silently Let me...

O, baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of baby blue Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed Now I know lightnin...

"My, how you've grown" I remember that phrase from my childhood days too "Just wait and see" I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the...

[ Tom Waits ] Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display your heart for me ...

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 crow...

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 ...

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 beaut...

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Robert Buck ] Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sediment...

You win a prize for that, for telling lies like that so well that I believed it I never felt cheated You were the chosen one, the pure eyes of Noah's dove Choir...

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 o...

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 o...

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 o...

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...

I found this photograph underneath the broken picture glass Tender face of black and white Beautiful, a haunting sight Looked into an angel's smile captivated a...

Science is truth for life watch religion fall obsolete science will be truth for life technology as nature science truth for life in fortran tongue the answer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baby baby oh baby I'd love to love you But my hands are tied Break these chains Oh oh these chains that are killing me You don't need money if you've got love ...

[ music: Natalie Merchant & Dennis Drew/words: Natalie Merchant ] Can I be unhappy? Look at what I see: a beast in furs and crowned in luxury He's a wealthy ma...

[ Jackson Browne ] I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days, these days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to ...

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone But in my mind I know they will still live on and on But how do you thank someone who's taken y...

That young boy without a name Anywhere I'd know his face In this city the kid's my favorite to see I've seen him, I see him every day Seen him run outside looki...

I'd like to know what makes you stay while your eyes still search for escape You think that I don't feel the cold, but I wait while confessions unfold You'll ne...