Natalie Merchant Albums. All albums made by Natalie Merchant with reviews and song lyrics.

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Ophelia was a bride of God
A novice Carmelite
In sister cells the cloister bells
Tolled on her wedding night

Ophelia was the rebel girl
A blue stocking suffragette
Who remedied society
Between her cigarettes

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And Ophelia was the sweetheart
To a nation overnight
Curvaceous thighs, vivacious eyes
Love was at first sight, love was at first sight
Love

Ophelia was a demi-goddess
In pre-war babylon
So statuesque a silhouette
In black satin evening gowns

Ophelia was the mistress to
A vegas gambling man
Signora Ophelia Maraschino
Mafia courtesan

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Ophelia was the circus queen
The female cannonball
Projected through five flaming hoops
To wild and shocked applause
To wild and shocked applause

Ophelia was a tempest cyclone
A goddamn hurricane
Your common sense, your best defense
They wasted and in vain

For Ophelia'd know your every woe
And every pain you'd ever had
She'd sympathize and dry your eyes
Help you to forget, and help you to forget
And help you to forget

Ophelia's mind went wandering
You'd wonder where she goes
Through secret doors down corridors
She wanders there alone, all alone

Es kostet mich keine kleine krise die verunreinigung und das
Es kostet mich keine kleine Krise die Verunreinigung und das
Suechtige aus meinem Leben auszuschliessen
But it is for me no little effort to exclude
The polluting and the addictive from my life

Compondo musica en un estado de ecstases
Composing music in a state of ecstasy
Fuerza de vida, de vida
Strength of life, of life
Mein Vater ist ein Architekt
My father is an architect

Ophelia is the title of a 1998 album, film, and song by Natalie Merchant.

'Kind & Generous' was the most successful single of the album, reaching the Top 20 in the U.S. whilst Merchant was on tour with Lilith Fair. 'Break Your Heart' also received single and video treatment. These and the other videos from the album, plus three from Tigerlily, were gathered on a Warner Music Vision home video, also entitled Ophelia. 'I love the opportunity to flex my thespian muscle,' Merchant quips on it.^[5]

The song 'King of May' is a tribute to poet Allen Ginsberg.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, a line from 'My Skin,' accompanied by images of animal abuse, served as the basis for an ASPCA commercial. It was also featured in the television series Alias some years earlier.

'Kind & Generous', 'The Living', 'Break Your Heart' and 'Life is Sweet' appeared on Merchant's best-of collection, Retrospective: 1995–2005.

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Natalie Merchant.^[6]

1. 'Ophelia' – 5:10
2. 'Life is Sweet' – 5:12
3. 'Kind & Generous' – 4:07
4. 'Frozen Charlotte' (with Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission) – 5:23
5. 'My Skin' – 5:30
6. 'Break Your Heart' (with N'Dea Davenport) – 4:47
7. 'King of May' – 4:09
8. 'Thick as Thieves' – 6:57
9. 'Effigy' – 2:30
10. 'The Living' – 3:18
11. 'When They Ring the Golden Bells (with Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission) / Ophelia (Reprise)' (string arrangement by Gavin Bryars – 9:33

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Notes[edit]

1. ^AllMusic review
2. ^Entertainment Weekly review
3. ^'Rolling Stone review'. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved 2012-11-16.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
4. ^'Pitchfork Media review'. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-01.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
5. ^Q, , May 1999
6. ^'Ophelia'. AllMusic. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
7. ^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.