viernes, 25 de abril de 2014

Natalie Merchant - Ladybird

First Single on Her New Album


Hey, Ladybird, ain’t it just the way,
the way that love grows cold and then fades away?
Now when he touches you, make no mistake,
the fire’s long gone out and the ash has blown away. You don’t know how to leave and you don’t know where to fly.
You don’t know what you feel
but you know it’s not satisfied today.
So many little ones, so many mouths,
you’ve got a lot to feed and you know you don’t know how.
Making the best of it, somehow you’re making do,
making the best of the days that you stay 
and you wait in this cage they made for you.You don’t know how to leave
and you don’t know where to fly.
You’ve got a lot of things to lose, 
so you’ve got a lot of things to hide.
You know you don’t believe
but you know you’ve got to try today.
You know the sweetest wine, it’s a witches’ brew,
pours like honey down and then burns a hole in you.
Yeah, you may think you’re done but you’re never through
spitting out the bitterness to get the little sweetness you do.You don’t know how to leave
and you don’t know where to fly.
You’ve got a lot of things to lose, 
so you’ve got a lot of things to hide.
You don’t know what you feel
but you know it’s not satisfied.
You know you don’t believe
but you know you’ve got to try today.Feel the winter bitterness; 
it’s heavy on the wind,
coming back again.

Maybe it’s time to fly, time to fly away! 
When you gonna spread your wings and fly? When you gonna fly away? When you gonna fly away?

jueves, 24 de abril de 2014

Merchant Performs Children's Concert



On January 28th Natalie Merchant gave a free concert for over 2600 school children at The Smith Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a video of highlights from the show.

viernes, 11 de abril de 2014

THE GREAT NATALIE MERCHANT IS BACK !!!

GIVING UP EVERITHING.


Giving up everything
My hungry ghost of hopefulness
Giving up everything
Not haunted by wanting this

Giving up everything
The fortune I was saving
Giving up everything
I mercy-killed my craving

Giving up everything
I've opened up my eyes for this
Giving up everything
See the cold magnificent emptiness

Give what I want for how it is
The stone inside for the bitterness
For sweetness at the core of it

Giving up everything
The master plan, the scheming
Giving up everything
My cursed search for meaning

Giving up everything
The compass and the map I was reading
The hinterlands I'm leaving
I'm finally leaving behind

Giving up everything
The big to-do, the hullabaloo
Talk of hope for some twisted truth
For the everlasting ache of it

No longer sleep, not chained to it
No gate, no guard, no keeper
No guru, master, teacher
See the slow, see the faces
Dissolve to black, no traces