Natalie Merchant - Song of Himself (Lyric Video)
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- Natalie Merchant's "Song of Himself" from her album 'Keep Your Courage,' out now on Nonesuch Records: 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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This new music has uplifted my soul. I am 75 years old and never knew you until I just saw you on tv singing Tower of Babel a few minutes ago! I have tears of joy listening to your new music! Thank you and God bless you!
I’m excited for you to discover all the brilliance. Enjoy. ❤
I am 51 and didn't know who Natalie was until like 2002,lots of people have been listening to her for 40 years. I love her
Natalie Merchant just gave me chills singing a song about Walt Whitman. Who these days releases a commercial album with the subject being Walt Whitman? Natalie is an amazing one of a kind artist. There are lines in this song that are pure poetry. Dedicated to America’s greatest poet no less.
Intellect in music is rare these days. Always a joy to find and Natalie Merchant is consistently superb in that regard.🤟😎🎵🎶
I thought it was about Titus Flavius in the person of Iesous.
I love the concept and like most of the songs from this album they're missing something and too indistinguishable from each other. As much as I admire Natalie and will always respect her, she's not moving me like she used to... I'm sorry to say.
@@petemavus2948 Keep listening. I mean turn off the lights at 1am, turn everything off possible, lay back and breath kind of listening. To quote John Hiatt, " It'll Come To Ya".🤟😎🎶🎵
@@petemavus2948 I thought the same after the first couple of listens to the album. I loved 'Eye of the Storm' and her cover of 'Hunting the Wren' (despite the rather bleak lyrics) on first hearing them, but I found that songs such as 'Narcissus', 'Guardian Angel' and 'St Valentine' were all slow paced and sounded similar. Quite a difficult album to access, even for long time fans.
'Big Girls' and 'Come on Aphrodite' are OK, but quite similar to one another. 'Tower of Babel' is a good song, but seems to finish all too soon. Having played the album several times while driving, the songs have grown on me. They are good songs, but perhaps a couple more fast paced songs would have helped, but she seems to prefer to be accompanied by strings rather than electric guitars these days.
I preferred the self-titled 2014 album, but having read that she has had health problems, I am grateful to hear new material, that she still has a great voice and is touring again. After the pandemic in 2020, it looked unlkely that she would tour Europe again.
I feel like one of my lost angels, soulmates, kindred spirits (thinking she was forever gone) has just re-emerged from her ethereal place and delivered the most exquisite gifts to me...her voice, her songs, her meaning! This is about the most sane, pure, relaxing thing that I have experienced in a very long time! So thankfull....so grateful, Natalie Merchant!
Wonderful. In a crazy world that keeps getting crazier by the day, I'm SO happy to see new music from Natalie.
I wholeheartedly agree.🤟😎🎵🎶
Me too yet maybe my expectations were too high.
For a couple of decades, my favorite song has been 'Thick as Thieves' from Natalie's album Ophelia.
It is now this.
'Thick as Thieves' is usually overlooked, but it is one of my favourite songs. Wonderful songwriting and a beautiful voice.
Live in California now. For some reason, I so wish that I was back East. Good things come to those who wait. Love the arrangements but your vocals are astonishing and felt.
Natalie contains multitudes! In this song she sings "set us free, set us free...Your song it will be sung, and sung again." It captures some of the spirit of Wittman's poem "Song of Myself", in particular it pulls me back to this part of the poem:
With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
I beat and pound for the dead,
I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them….
Walt Whitman, the poet, Song of Myself, excelled in free verse
every time I listen to Natalie I marvel at her voice,sooooo relaxing
I’ll take a grey-haired Natalie Merchant dancing in front of a drop cloth tapestry any day over your next flash-in-the-pan pop tart any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
I'm an atheist, but the lyrics felt like some goddess speaking to me.
Thank you for more beautiful art. You are part of the soundtrack of so many life's. I hope your life is also filled with joy.🤟😎🎵🎶
❤️Mystic poetry❤️ Set us free❤️
When you can fall into such a hauntingly beautiful and ethereal song and feel as if she were singing to you, magic and art become one. A song both ancient and from long from now.
Her voice is absolutely beautiful. ❤❤❤❤❤
::: yes these songs are yours :: as fair and clear as sunrise :: unconditional :: training to drive a school bus :: from one place to another :::
I am so glad you are back nattily I have all your music you have such a beautiful voice hits the Messageheart 💖 love the new album thank you 😊 god. Bless you 👌🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏
Great to hear these new songs. I was just listening to Cherry Tree today. Go Natalie!
The new album is so beautiful - see you in Milwaukee May 20
"set us free, with words conferred by ghost, by poetry" - all of her songs are in the air & of the air & they are the air, dancing, twirling, spinning & everywhere, all the time & for all time, in sunlight shafts, moonglow rafts, stardust verse, tone & rhyme 💛🎙💚👩🧡💃🤍✍📓💙🔊💜🎶💗🙌😊
I love this song. I feel so happy and safe when I hear your voice. You are the bard for the tender hearted. ❤🙏
Natalie, you are a bright and beautiful woman. This was definitely worth the wait. We have nothing but the utmost in respect and admiration for you. Thank you for sharing your gift. You have talent with a capital T!❤
This is my favorite! Thank you for the beautiful music; you make us all so happy and full of hope! Love the new album it’s really quite fantastical.❤❤❤❤
This reminds me of, Where I Go, from your first album. Keeping that touch with the subtle and rarely noticed parts of what make us human.
Get your Grammy, Natalie!
Thanks for sharing your sweetness and poetry with all of us dear Natalie
Thank you Natalie for always bring me to my happy place
Can’t wait to get the album
angelic why isnt she being nominated for rock and roll hall of fame......
As I see it, it is because Natalie Merchant is an authentic artist with a great voice who writes beautiful songs. She also does her own thing and is fiercely independent. The Hall of Fame is mostly full of gimmicks and artists with friends in the right places who have greased the right palms/ kissed the right arses.
Wonderful - how great to have her back.
I love her such a voice see you in September ❤❤❤❤❤😊
Pitty, I could'n get a ticket for her show, only expensive places were left.
But happy I saw her a few years ago, although I was sitting far away, I was there.
I am so glad you are back nattily I have all your music you have such a beautiful voice hits the heart 💖 love the new album thank you 😊 god. Bless you 👌🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏
Oh, what a magnificent song! I always cry when I listen to it. Not only Natalie's exquisite voice, but her poetry, the way she captures so perfectly Whitman's spirit and his message. I feel she has channeled him (... "by ghost, by poetry") -- she seems to know him personally, deeply. ... When will someone write the "Song of Herself" for Natalie?
I read she went to the Library of Congress and asked, "Show me everything that Walt Whitman touched." Natalie certainly does her homework!!
LOVE NATALIE❤🙌 thank you🫶
Lovely. The lyrics roll by like poetry set to an anthem. Thank you!
I love this more than I can express. We read Walt Whitman as part of our wedding vows❤and I have a Walt Whitman tattoo. I bawled when I heard this. Love your poetry Natalie. You are one of my lifelong hero’s just like Walt who I had his poems taped to my walls as a teenage moody goth. I imagine Walt would have carried a photo of you like he did his sweetheart. ❤❤❤
An instant favorite ❤️ thank you Natalie
Absolutely joyous...shades of the old 10000 maniacs, dancing round getting ready to go out for a night. Such beautiful uplifting sounds, lyrics and so very Very life- affirming.
What a very special new album and can't wait till Glasgow this year.
Thank you natalie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I was at Glasgow too one of the best nights of my life ❤
Poesía de primer orden.
Wow! What a great voice! "These are the days ", is my favorite, because it always has spoke to me about the precious value of time with family and friends.
PS: From an old metal head! Please don't tell@ lol
No need to be embarrassed. A great voice is a great voice, whether it is metal, rock, blues or folk. My favourite band is Free and Natalie Merchant's voice reminds me of a female equivalent of Paul Rodgers' voice, with a hint of Sandy Denny. I can't really pay a higher compliment than that.
Have you heard the songs 'Tolerance' and 'Hateful Hate' by 10000 Maniacs? They give a glimpse of what a great rock singer Natalie Merchant could be.
Stunning great one. These lyrics sunk deep and moved me in a way that is rare and nourishing.
You never disappoint! 😊😊😊 See you in St Augustine 4/28
SO Very Beautiful, Still
amazing voice!
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
This song seems to be an answer to a Bob seger song I Love This ❤
positive vibes
positive vibes friend 💚
Love
💕🕊💕🕊💕🕊
Brilliant
❤
Why are we getting no airplay
Ruth eckerd hall clearwater, here we come!!!!
I am so glad you are back nattily I have all your music you have such a beautiful voice hits the heart 💖 love the new album thank you 😊 god. Bless you 👌🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏
I am so glad you are back nattily I have all your music you have such a beautiful voice hits the heart 💖 love the new album thank you 😊 god. Bless you 👌🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏