Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Tigerlily

River Lyrics

Young & strong Hollywood son

 In the early morning light

 This star fell down

 On Sunset Boulevard 

 

 Young & strong beautiful one

 One that we embraced so close

 Is gone

 Was torn away 

 

 Let the youth of America mourn

 Include him in their prayers

 Let his image linger on

 Repeat it everywhere 

 

 With candles with flowers

 He was one of ours

 One of ours 

 

 Why don't you let him be? 

 He's gone

 We know

 Give his mother & father peace

 Your vulture's candor

 Your casual slander

 Will murder his memory

 He's gone

 We know

 And it's nothing but a tragedy 

 

 Lay to rest your soul and body

 Lay beside your name

 Lay to rest your rage

 Your hunger and amazing grace 

 

 With candles, with flowers

 You were one of ours

 One of ours 

 

 I saw cameras expose your life

 I heard rumors explode with lies

 I saw children with tears

 Cry and crowd around the sight

 Of where you had collapsed that day

 Where your last breath & word

 Had been sighed

 Where your heart had burst

 Where you had died 

 

 I saw how they were lost in grieving

 All half-believing you were gone

 The loss and pain of it

 Crime and the shame of it

 You were gone

 It was such a nightmare raving, 

 "how could we save him

 From himself?"