Natalie Merchant - Song of Himself (Lyric Video)

Natalie Merchant's "Song of Himself" from her album 'Keep Your Courage,' out now on Nonesuch Records: https://nataliemerchant.lnk.to/KeepYo...

SONG OF HIMSELF
(words & music by Natalie Merchant)

How time does gambol on
with countless comings of the dawn,
with the banishing of night
by transcendent rays of light.

Sing a song of gilded golden sun,
of the dawning of a day begun
that will never, never come—won’t come again.

Who knew the blossom and the swelling seed?
Who named the numberless shades of green?
Who stopped to linger in the path?
Who saw the world in a blade of grass?

Come, sing your song son, native born and bred
in a mother tongue so long unsung, unsaid.

Set us free, with of love above all causes, laws and creeds.
Your song it will be sung—and sung again.

Electric surge of words that ebbed and flowed,
the likes of which, the world had never known
and will never, never come—won’t come again.

All the fools and all the thieves,
all the cursed and the diseased,
fallen daughters and wayward sons,
your arms embracing everyone.

Come sing your song of love bold, brave and proud,
love that has no shame that knows no doubt.

Set us free, with words conferred by ghost, by poetry.

At the dawning of the sun,
you multitude of one,
your song, it will be sung—and sung again.

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