Lyrics of Hope Chest 10000 Maniacs

[ music: john lombardo/lyric: john lombardo adapts wilfred owen ]



For whom the bells toll
When sentenced to die
The stuttering rifles
Will stifle the cry
The mons ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant & j.c. lombardo/music: j.c. lombardo ]



Like a weasel in the clover
You tilt toss pop turn over
Sit down!
Tremble and weave like a moth< ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: j.c. lombardo ]



There were women holding rosaries
On the day manolete died
Teenage girls in soft white dresses
Standing silent peace ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: j.c.lombardo & robert buck ]



There was light and atomic fission
Swelling wind
Rising ash
Tide of black rain
Cement seared sh ....More >>

[ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ]



Imitate that soured old song

There is no individuality
Only guises
Shades of
Nonconformity
There is no i ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: robert buck ]



Greta´s cedar hope chest
Is full of pamphlets
Glass shelves of romantic vignettes
A journal laced with sedimenta ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant & michael walsh/music: j.c.lombardo ]



She borders the pavement
Flanks avenues
Parades pass white glove attended by
My mother the war
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[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: dennis drew ]



Honor salute and speak
To the corner standing flag
Do you remember how the days of school were
Indivisible separate wo ....More >>

[ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ]



Lineage closed
Dissolved
In its birth
Tragedy
Prelude a balance
Is a synergy
Of reason
Malicious hope ....More >>

[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: steve gustafson ]



In the cruel garrison of affection
If worth of lore is true
You know the face of a temptress
Pit viper

A ....More >>

[ music: dennis drew/lyric: natalie merchant ]



Science
Is truth for life
Watch religion fall obsolete
Science
Will be truth for life
Technology as nature
....More >>

[ lombardo/merchant ]



Oh my dear friend
My dear friend giorgio
How has this time breton
Discouraged your liaison with the
Eye styled metaphysical
Incongruous ....More >>

[ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ]



Frail hinges pivot
On a cases door
Commemorative
Souvenirs from places
Containers change
With each occasionMore >>

[ lyrics: wilfred owen/music: j.c. lombardo ]



Bent double like old beggars in sacks
Knockkneed and cursing or coughing like hags
Men marched on sleeping some without boot ....More >>