Listening the new, self-titled, album by Natalie Merchant, but haven’t listened to it quite enough to pick out a favorite song.<\/p>\n
So here are two from her 1995 first solo album Tigerlily.<\/p>\n
First, San Andreas Fault:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vqVa92wuyH4<\/p>\n
\nSan Andreas Fault
\nMoved its fingers
\nThrough the ground
\nEarth divided
\nPlates collided
\nSuch an awful sound <\/p>\nO, promised land
\nO, wicked ground
\nBuild a dream
\nTear it down\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA sentiment very much in the mind of anyone who lives in Southern California.<\/p>\n
And the finale on the album, Seven Years:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rT3RBN6YERs<\/p>\n
\nHow did I love you?
\nThere was no measuring
\nFar above this dirty world
\nFar above everything
\nIn your tower over it
\nYou were clean <\/p>\nBut for seven years
\nYou were loved
\nI laid golden orchid crowns
\nAround you feet<\/p>\nFor seven years
\nI bowed down
\nTo touch the ground
\nSo wholly your devotee<\/p>\nYou were
\nAll that I could see\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nQuoted lyrics, I realize, mean little, without hearing the song and placing them in that context. And then they mean everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Listening the new, self-titled, album by Natalie Merchant, but haven’t listened to it quite enough to pick out a favorite song. So here are two from her 1995 first solo album Tigerlily. First, San Andreas Fault: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vqVa92wuyH4 San Andreas Fault … Continue reading