Lyrics: Hey Jack Kerouac Album: In My Tribe Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ robert buck/natalie merchant ] Hey jack kerouac, i think of your mother And the tears she cried, she cried for none other Than her little boy lost…

Lyrics: Cabaret Album: Earth Pressed Flat Artist: 10000 Maniacs   Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey Shards of glass cut through my gaze Broken streamers hanging at my legs Drunk and giddy full of fate At the…

Lyrics: Tension Makes A Tangle Album: Wishing Chair Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ] As frail hinges Pivot on a case’s door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change With each occasion A cellophane encased Display…

Lyrics: Smallest Step Album: Earth Pressed Flat Artist: 10000 Maniacs   Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey & john lombardo When the day ends And church bells are ringing When the valley is shroudedin snow, When you’re…

Lyrics: These Are Days Album: Our Time In Eden Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ buck/merchant ] [ percussion: paulinho da costa ] These are days you’ll remember. Never before and never since, i promise, will the whole world be warm…

Lyrics: Stockton Gala Days Album: MTV Unplugged 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 have seen…

Lyrics: Grey Victory Album: Wishing Chair 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: Pour De Chiciro Album: Unknown Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: j.c. lombardo ] Oh my dear friend My dear friend giorgio How has this time breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios…

Lyrics: Gold Rush Brides Album: MTV Unplugged Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ buck/merchant ] [ harmonica: charles fleischer ] Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads. Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where…

Lyrics: Party Of God Album: Unknown Artist: 10000 Maniacs   [ billy bragg and natalie merchant ] In a busy street A man sits down Oblivious to the traffic sounds No chaos No frenzied shrieking crowd Thank god their silence…