Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Live In Concert

Ophelia Lyrics

Ophelia was a bride of god

 A novice Carmelite

 In sister cells the cloister bells

 Tolled on her wedding night 

 

 Ophelia was a rebel girl

 A blue stocking suffragette

 Who remedied society

 Between her cigarettes 

 

 Ophelia was a sweetheart

 To the nation over night

 Curvaceous thighs

 Vivacious eyes

 Love was at first sight... 

 

 Ophelia was a demigoddess

 In pre war Babylon

 So statuesque a silhouette

 In black satin evening gowns 

 

 Ophelia was the mistress to a

 Vegas gambling man

 Signora Ophelia Maraschina

 Mafia courtesan 

 

 Ophelia was a circus queen

 The female cannonball

 Projected through five flaming hoops

 To wild and shocked applause... 

 

 Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest

 A god damned hurricane

 Your common sense

 Your best defense

 Lay wasted and in vain 

 

 Ophelia'd know your every woe

 And pain you'd ever had

 She'd sympathize

 And dry your eyes

 And help you to forget... 

 

 Ophelia's mind went wandering

 You'd wonder where she'd gone

 Through secret doors

 Down corridors

 She'd wander them alone

 All alone...