You were the love for certain of my life you were simply my beloved wife I don't know for certain how I'll live my life now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife I can't believe I've lost the very best of me you were the love for certain of my life you were simply my beloved wife I don't know for certain how I'll live my life now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife I can't believe I've lost the very best of me you were the love for certain of my life for forever simply my beloved wife with another love I'll never lie again it's you I can't deny it's you I can't defy a depth so deep into my grief without my beloved soul I renounce my life as my right now alone without my beloved wife my beloved wife my beloved wife my love is gone she suffered long in hours of pain my love is gone now my suffering begins my love is gone would it be wrong if I should surrender all the joy in my life go with her tonight? my love is gone she suffered long in hours of pain my love is gone would it be wrong if I should just turn my face away from the light go with her tonight?

-Natalie Merchant

Go west paradise is there you'll have all that you can eat of milk and honey over there you'll be the brightest star the world has ever seen sun-baked slender hero of film and magazine go west paradise is there you'll have all that you can eat of milk and honey over there you'll be the brightest light the world has ever seen the dizzy height of a jet-set life you could never dream your pale blue eyes strawberry hair lips so sweet skin so fair your future bright beyond compare it's rags to riches over there San Andreas Fault moved it's fingers through the ground earth divided plates collided such an awful sound San Andreas Fault moved its fingers through the ground terra cotta shattered and walls came tumbling down o promised land o wicked ground build a dream tear it down o promised land what a wicked ground build a dream watch it fall down

-Natalie Merchant

I walked around my good intentions

And found that there were none

I blame my father for the wasted years

We hardly talked

I never thought I would forget this hate

Then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong

And if I don't make it

Know that I've loved you all along

Just like sunny days that

We ignore because

We're all dumb and jaded

And I hope to God I figure out what's wrong

I walked around my room

Not thinking

Sinking in this box

I blame myself for being too much like somebody else

I never thought that I'd just bend this way

Then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong

And if I don't make it

Know that I loved you all along

Just like sunny days that

We ignore because

We're all dumb and jaded

And I hope to God I figure out what's wrong