Ophelia Lyrics by Natalie Merchant

Ophelia Lyrics

    Ophelia was a bride of God
    A novice Carmelite
    In sister cells
    The cloister bells tolled on her wedding night

    Ophelia was the rebel girl
    A blue stocking suffragette
    Who remedied society between her cigarettes

    And Ophelia was the sweetheart
    To a nation overnight
    Curvaceous thighs
    Vivacious eyes
    Love was at first sight
    Love was at first sight

    Ophelia was a demigoddess in pre-war Babylon
    So statuesque a silhouette in black satin evening gowns

    Ophelia was the mistress
    To a Vegas gambling man
    Signora Ophelia Maraschina
    Mafia courtesan

    Ophelia was the circus queen
    The female cannonball
    Projected through five flaming hoops
    To wild and shocked applause
    To wild and shocked applause

    Ophelia was a tempest cyclone
    A goddamn hurricane
    Your common sense, your best defense
    Lay wasted and in vain

    For Ophelia'd know your every woe
    And every pain you'd ever had
    She'd sympathize and dry your eyes
    And help you to forget
    Help you to forget
    And help you to forget

    Ophelia's mind went wandering
    You'd wonder where she'd gone
    Through secret doors down corridors
    She wanders them alone
    All alone

    fade to different spoken languages

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