[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Robert Buck ]



greta's cedar hope chest
is full of pamphlets
glass shelves of romantic vignettes
a journal laced with sedimentary prose

norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays
hair combs valentines

lillian allows the animals to scratch
leather crack
mail collect in the box coatings peel

agnes veiled cathedral dweller
smiles with benevolent pain
it's katrina's fair tuesday morning
as she with caution unlatches the flat door
she alone cascades to the basement
careful not to spoil her
calico printed pinafore
composite traits mannerists
all others dissipate

margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements

sarah's thoughts in the velocity
accusations always pierce and pass

clara abandons her passions for distastes
miss lenora p. sinclair
early for coffee in the pool
"i'm resituating all your words"
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sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled
kingdom phylum class order family genus species

A Little Stronger Everyday You Deliver Me A Thousand Days Neue MäNner Braucht Das Land Hey Goldmember Call Of The Playground Bus-A-Bus Interlude Ruby's Two Sad Daughters Arap Saçý Hounds of Love CAN'T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING Ohh No She Didn't Roundabout Make A Million Cheldorado On the Prowl The Price Of Reality Cold Hearted Mr. Self Destruct 100,000 Fireflies Blag Tough Times Don't Last How Sweet It is Kingdom of Childhood

All About U I'm Insane Discipline Home From Home This Offer Is Unrepeatable Beautiful Stalker Eternal Flame Save Me Come What May Brides Ghostly Grace Wear My Ring Around Your Neck Brown Girl in the Ring Over and Over Overdose Your Mirror Call Me Irresponsible Onnencowboy Summerbaby I Can't Stop Loving You Lord Of The Thighs If My Heart were a Ball it would Roll Uphill Dreaming Right by You Life In Mono