Natalie Merchant

"you've been so kind and generous I don't know how you keep on giving for your kindness I'm in debt to you for your selflessness, my admiration and for everything you've done you know I'm bound... I'm bound to thank you for it"

"I want to thank you for so many gifts you gave with love and tenderness I want to thank you I want to thank you for your generosity the love and the honesty that you gave me"

"they told you life is hard it's misery from the start it's dull and slow and painful I tell you life is sweet in spite of the misery there's so much more be grateful"

"who do you believe? who will you listen to who will it be? it's high time that you decide in your own mind"

"where in hell can you go far from the things that you know far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way about 1,000 miles a day?"

"take one last look behind commit this to memory and mind don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place when you leave keep your heart off your sleeve"

"motherland cradle me close my eyes lullaby me to sleep keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go, don't you go"

"once I could love, I could trust, I could not doubt but that was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing that I could do"

"once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt but that was the worst thing that I could do"

"once I came close to that most elusive fire burning with hopeless love and desire but it was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing I could do"

"who'll save the poor little girl? oh, Henry... who'll tell the story of her? Henry Darger"

"who will draw the calvary in risk his very own precious skin to make our Angelinia a free and peaceful land again? Henry who'll love a poor orphan child? Henry Darger"