Ophelia (Live Version)

Ophelia (Live) - Natalie Merchant

Written by：Hyde

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 stockting 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

Love

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

Boy's projected through five flaming hoops

To wild and shocked applause

To wild and shocked applause

Hey

Ophelia was a tempest cyclone

A goddamn hurricane

Your common sense your best defense

They wasted and in vain

For Ophelia know your every woe

And every pain you'd ever had

She'd sympathize

She dry your eyes

Help you to forget

And help you to forget

And help you to forget

Ophelia's mind went wandering

You'd wonder where she goes

Through secret doors down corridors

She wanders there alone

All alone

All alone