Ophelia Lyrics - Live In Concert - Natalie Merchant

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 

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 

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