Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Ophelia

Life Is Sweet Lyrics

It's a pity

 It's a crying shame

 Who pulled you down again? 

 How painful it must be

 To bruise so easily inside 

 

 It's a pity

 It's a downright crime

 But it happens all the time

 You wanna stay little daddy's girl

 Wanna hide from the vicious world outside 

 

 But don't cry

 Know the tears'll do no good

 So dry your eyes 

 

 Your daddy he's the iron man

 A battleship wrecked on dry land

 Your mama she's a bitter bride

 She'll never be satisfied, 

 And you know

 That's not right 

 

 But don't cry

 Know the tears'll do no good

 So dry your eyes 

 

 They told you life is hard

 It's misery from the start

 It's dull and slow and painful 

 

 I tell you life is sweet

 In spite of the misery

 There's so much more

 Be grateful 

 

 Who do you believe? 

 Who will you listen to

 Who will it be? 

 It's high time that you decide

 In your own mind 

 

 Tried to comfort you

 Tried to tell you to be patient

 They are blind

 They can't see 

 

 Fortune gonna come some day

 All gonna fade away

 Your daddy the war machine and

 Your mama the long and suffering

 Prisoner of what she can not see 

 

 They told you life is hard

 It's misery from the start

 It's dull and slow and painful 

 

 I tell you life is sweet

 In spite of the misery

 There's so much more

 Be grateful 

 

 Who do you believe? 

 Who will you listen to

 Who will it be? 

 

 It's high time you decide

 It's time you make up your own sweet little mind 

 

 They told you life is long

 Be thankful when it's done

 Don't ask for more

 You should be grateful 

 

 But I tell you life is short

 Be thankful because before you know

 It will be over 

 

 Cause life is sweet

 And life is also very short

 Your life is sweet