Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Tigerlily

Seven Years Lyrics

How did I love you? 

 There was no measuring

 Far above this dirty world

 Far above everything

 In your tower over it

 You were clean 

 

 So warm and insightful

 Were you in my eyes

 I was sure the rightful

 Guardian of my life

 Damn you betrayer

 How you lied 

 

 But for seven years

 You were loved

 I laid golden orchid crowns

 Around you feet 

 

 For seven years

 I bowed down

 To touch the ground

 So wholly your devotee 

 

 You were

 All that I could see 

 

 I've got my sight now

 I see everything you hid

 So don't you try to right now

 All the wrong you did

 I might forget you

 But not forgive 

 

 But for seven years

 You were loved

 I laid golden orchid crowns

 Around your feet 

 

 For seven years

 I bowed down

 To touch the ground

 So wholly your devotee 

 

 For seven years

 You were so revered

 I made offerings of

 Anything and everything I had 

 

 You were

 All that I could see