[ 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

Pure and Easy Mute Slow Dancing Miercoles Perfumenes De Mujer Paranoia Y Soledad Too Much Monkey Business Life I Lead A Hundred Oceans Two Sets Of Jones's Mind's Reality In conversation Some Do, Some Don't Big Shot THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS Kiss Salude I Don't Care (So There) I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Wasted Years Drops Me Down Higher Than The World Last Train Meet me at the station BEAT 'EM UP

In Love With All My Love Burn, Georgia, Burn Bumblebee The Metro Opened JUSTIFIED MAN Girls' Room Damage Done St. Matthew I am Whoever We Don't Live Here No More Piece Of My Heart The Night That The Wall Came Down Blue Bird I Can Do No Wrong Provincijalka Thinkin' Again North Star Honey White Desperado Underground Hearts Oxygen Learn To Be Still The Final Thrust