Lyrics: Stockton Gala Days Album: Our Time In Eden Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ buck/drew/gustafson/augustyniak/merchant ] [ violin: mary ramsey ] That summer fields grew high with foxglove stalks and ivy. Wild apple blossoms everywhere. Emerald green like none i…

Lyrics: I’m Not The Man Album: MTV Unplugged Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ merchant ] [ bassoons: kim laskowski & atsuko sato ] It crawls on his back, won’t ever let him be. Stares at the walls until the cinder…

Lyrics: Cotton Alley Album: Wishing Chair Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ] One time You made me cry Be proud that i Remember My chin is sore The bruise is gone But the spot is…

Lyrics: Just As The Tide Was A Flowing Album: Wishing Chair Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ music: traditional/lyric: arranged by 10,000 maniacs ] On one morning In the month of may When all the birds Were singing I saw a…

Lyrics: Among The Americans Album: Wishing Chair Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ music: robert buck & dennis drew/lyric: natalie merchant ] Dance to the sun A kiss to the earth Embrace a stone Come the small black book Come the…

Lyrics: Let The Mystery Be Album: Unknown Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ iris dement ] [ from her debut album: infamous angel ] Chorus: Everybody’s wondering what and where they all came from Everybody’s worrying ’bout where they’re gonna go…

Lyrics: Across The Fields Album: Love Among the Ruins Artist: 10000 Maniacs   Oooooh… Well, they left then in the morning A hundred pairs of wings, in the light, moved together Oooooh… In the colors of the morning I looked…

Lyrics: Grey Victory Album: Hope Chest Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ 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 shawdow traces Reminiscent of their…

Lyrics: Dust Bowl Album: Blind Man’s Zoo Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ music: robert buck/words: natalie merchant ] I should know to leave them home. They follow me through the store with these toys i can’t afford. "kids, take them…

Lyrics: Somebody’s Heaven Album: Earth Pressed Flat Artist: 10000 Maniacs   Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey There like a feather you fell someone’s heaven above me Floating so fickle tempting me teasing my ways Thrown from…