[ 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

Zonder Woorden Ronnie Silence is Their Drug Little Bright Star Let Me Lie To You Plastic Cup Politics! Neat,Neat,Neat Hero In His Own Mind Caught In The Act Of Love Langelo Nero Coming Home Hello Again OUT IN THE COLD You Did Not Have A Home Work Song Don't Wanna Say Goodbye What Do I Have To Do? Axe Grinder Vamos It's In The Way That You Use It Bitch Your Secret Love Media Men Wild is the Wind

Questions For Heaven Animal Instinct (sic) Julia I'll Prove My Love American Wheeze Betta Stay Up In Your House Good Bye TIME, LOVE AND TENDERNESS Not That Kind of Girl Growing Man Blues So I Cry Escape From the Zoo Kleines Geheimnis My Rhyme Ain't Done Cuttin' Headz Sombrerito Paname??????Â?o I'm In Love With My Car Demented Monkees Theme It Wasn't Me How Can I Sing Like A Girl? Third Of June Teenage Witch