[ Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant ]



Over your shoulder, please don't mind me
if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine
for I've been watching and wondering
why your face is changing with every line you read.

All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.
I cannot read to save my life, I'm so ashamed to say.

I live in silence, afraid to speak
of my life of darkness because I cannot read.

For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she could it would be wonderful.
Then I wouldn't need someone else's eyes to see what's in front of me.
No one guiding me.

It makes me humble to be so green
at what every kid can do when he learns A to Z,

but all those lines and circles just frighten me
and I fear that I'll be trampled if you don't reach for me.
Before I run I'll have to take a fall.
And then pick myself up, so slowly I'll devour every one of those books in the Tower of Knowledge.

Someone Else's Prayer When The Saints Go Marching In Time's Up Get Up and Go Belief Azrael Lied FüR Edith Piaf Afscheid Letting Go Only The Lonely She Gives Smooth Criminal I Quit Hello Darlin' Chula Do Póvoa Who Do I Know In Dallas Should Have Been A Cowboy Walk The Dinosaur Guitar Man Nnu Doftar Kärlek Que Habria Sido De Mi SISTER I'M A POET (BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF) Blue Light I Will Show You Mine

Dulce Espera Green Grass And High Tides Bleib Am Ball Makin' My Way (Any Way That I Can) All I Know Christmas Time Is Here Here on Earth ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD The Blue Sky Vaya Con Dios Hot Water Without You Cupid's Got a Gun Snowflakes Of Love (Brent Fischer Instrumental, Bonus Track) The Waltz of Treachery Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms Sentinela Somebody Must Be Prayin' For Me Get Down The Guns Of Brixton French Kissin' In The USA Crazy He Calls Me Pants Off Original Me