elblogdenataliemerchant: Ophelia ( 1998 ).

"Ophelia"

Ophelia was a bride of god

A novice Carmelite

In sister cells the cloister bells

Tolled on her wedding night

Ophelia was a rebel girl

A blue stocking suffragette

Who remedied society

Between her cigarettes

Ophelia was a sweetheart

To the nation over night

Curvaceous thighs

Vivacious eyes

Love was at first sight...

Ophelia was a demigoddess

In pre war Babylon

So statuesque a silhouette

In black satin evening gowns

Ophelia was the mistress to a

Vegas gambling man

Signora Ophelia Maraschina

Mafia courtesan

Ophelia was a circus queen

The female cannonball

Projected through five flaming hoops

To wild and shocked applause...

Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest

A god damned hurricane

Your common sense

Your best defense

Lay wasted and in vain

Ophelia'd know your every woe

And pain you'd ever had

She'd sympathize

And dry your eyes

And help you to forget...

Ophelia's mind went wandering

You'd wonder where she'd gone

Through secret doors

Down corridors

She'd wander them alone

All alone...

"Life Is Sweet"

It's a pity

It's a crying shame

Who pulled you down again?

How painful it must be

To bruise so easily inside

It's a pity

It's a downright crime

But it happens all the time

You wanna stay little daddy's girl

Wanna hide from the vicious world outside

But don't cry

Know the tears'll do no good

So dry your eyes

Your daddy he's the iron man

A battleship wrecked on dry land

Your mama she's a bitter bride

She'll never be satisfied,

And you know

That's not right

But don't cry

Know the tears'll do no good

So dry your eyes

They told you life is hard

It's misery from the start

It's dull and slow and painful

I tell you life is sweet

In spite of the misery

There's so much more

Be grateful

Who do you believe?

Who will you listen to

Who will it be?

It's high time that you decide

In your own mind

Tried to comfort you

Tried to tell you to be patient

They are blind

They can't see

Fortune gonna come some day

All gonna fade away

Your daddy the war machine and

Your mama the long and suffering

Prisoner of what she can not see

They told you life is hard

It's misery from the start

It's dull and slow and painful

I tell you life is sweet

In spite of the misery

There's so much more

Be grateful

Who do you believe?

Who will you listen to

Who will it be?

It's high time you decide

It's time you make up your own sweet little mind

They told you life is long

Be thankful when it's done

Don't ask for more

You should be grateful

But I tell you life is short

Be thankful because before you know

It will be over

Cause life is sweet

And life is also very short

Your life is sweet

"Kind & Generous"

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

And for everything you've done

You know I'm bound...

I'm bound to thank you for it

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

So for everything you've done

You know I'm bound...

I'm bound to thank you for it

I want to thank you

For so many gifts

You gave with love and tenderness

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

I want to...

Thank you

"Frozen Charlotte"

Blue like the winter snow in this full moon

Black like the silhouettes of the trees

Late blooming flowers lye frozen underneath the stars

I want you to remember me that way

Far away

I'll be gone

Will you wait for me here?

How long?

I don't know

But wait for me here

Still as the river grows in December

Silent and perfect blinding ice

Spring keeps her promises

No cold can keep her back

I want you to remember me that way

Far away

I'll be gone

Will you wait for me here?

How long?

I don't know

But wait for me here

Don't follow me to where I'll go

Far away

I'll be gone

Will you wait for me here?

How long?

I don't know

But wait for me here

Don't follow me to where I've gone

Someday you'll take my place

And I'll wait for you here

"My Skin"

Take a look at my body

Look at my hands

There's so much here

That I don't understand

Your face saving promises

Whispered like prayers

I don't need them

I've been treated so wrong

I've been treated so long

As if I'm becoming untouchable

Contempt loves the silence

It thrives in the dark

With fine winding tendrils

That strangle the heart

They say that promises

Sweeten the blow

But I don't need them

No, I don't need them

I've been treated so wrong

I've been treated so long

As if I'm becoming untouchable

I'm a slow dying flower

Frost killing hour

The sweet turning sour

And untouchable

Oh, I need

The darkness

The sweetness

The sadness

The weakness

Oh, I need this

I need

A lullaby

A kiss goodnight

Angel sweet

Love of my life

Oh, I need this

I'm a slow dying flower

Frost killing hour

The sweet turning sour

And untouchable

Do you remember the way

That you touched me before

All the trembling sweetness

I loved and adored?

Your face saving promises

Whispered like prayers

I don't need them

No, I don't need them

I need

The darkness

The sweetness

The sadness

The weakness

I need this

I need

A lullaby

A kiss goodnight

The angel sweet

Love of my life

Oh, I need this

Well, is it dark enough?

Can you see me?

Do you want me?

Can you reach me?

Or I'm leaving

You better shut your mouth

Hold your breath

Kiss me now you'll catch your death

Oh, I mean it

Oh, I need this.

"Break Your Heart"

People downcast, is despair

See the disillusion everywhere

Hoping their bad luck will change

Gets a little harder every day

People struggle, people fight

For the simple pleasures in their lives

But 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

And the way they've been

And the way they've always been

People shallow, self-absorbed

See the push and shove for their rewards

I, me, my is on their minds

You can read about it in their eyes

People ruthless, people cruel

See the damage that some people do

Full of hatred, full of pride

It's enough to make you loose 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 never will let love survive

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

Don't disrespect yourself

Don't loose your pride

And don't think that

Everybody's gonna choose your side

"King Of May"

Farewell today

Travel on now

Be on your way

Go safely there

Never worry

Never care

Beyond this day

Farewell tonight

To all joy and to all delight

Go well and go peacefully

We can't keep your majesty

Be on your way

Make ready for the last King of May

Make a cardboard crown for him

Make your voices one

Praise a crazy mother's son

Who loved his life

Farewell today

Travel on now

Be on your way

Can't bear the very thought

That we could keep your majesty

Be on your way

Make ready for the last King of May

Make a hole in the crowd for him

Raise your voices up

Lift your loving cups

To his long life

Make ready for the last King of May

Make a hole in the sky for him

Raise your voices up

Drink your loving cups

To his long life

"Thick As Thieves"

Remember how it all began

The apple and the fall of man

The price we paid

So the people say

Down a path of shame it lead us

Dared to bite the hand that fed us

The fairy tale

The moral end

The wheel of fortune

Never turns again

The worst of it has come and gone

In the chaos of millennium

In the falling out of the doomsday crowd

Their last retreat is moving slow

They burn their bridges as they go

The heretic is beatified

He'll teach the harlot's child to smile

Wracked again by indecision

Should we make that small incision

Testify to the bleeding heart inside?

We cut, we scratched

We rent, we slashed

And when he opened up at last

Found a cul-de-sac

Deep and black

Of smoke and ash

The wicked king of parody

Is kissing all his enemies

On the seventh day

Of the seventh week

The tyrant's voice is softer now

But just for one forgiving hour

Before the rise of his

Iron fist again

I've come tonight

I've come to know

The way we are

The way we'll go

Come to measure this

The width of the wide abyss

I come to you in restless sleep

Where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet

With voodoo doll philosophies

And day-glo holy trinities

The crooked raft that leaves the shore

Ferries drunken souls aboard

Pilgrims march to Compestela

Visions of their saint in yellow

All follow deep in trance

Lost in a catatonic dance

Know no future

Damn the past

Blind, warm, ecstatic

Safe at last...

"The Living"

What's it like there outside

With the living?

From this broken down place

Where I hide

From the living

Cause I don't care to stay

With the living

O, the bottle has been to me

My closest friend and

My worst enemy

Afraid that I've walked a fine line

Squandered it all

And wasted my time

And I don't stand a chance

Among the living

All the lovers I've gambled and lost

Count my mistakes

Whatever the cost

I'll go off, I'll make myself scarce

Come tomorrow

You won't find me here

Cause I don't care to stay

Among the living

No, I don't think I'll remain

"When They Ring The Golden Bells"

There's a land beyond the river

That they call the sweet forever

And we only reach that shore by faith's decree

One by one we'll gain the portals

There to dwell with the immortals