“I've walked these streets
in the mad house asylum
they can be
where a wild eyed misfit prophet
on a traffic island stopped
and he raved of saving me”

—  Natalie Merchant

Song lyrics, Tigerlily (1995), Carnival

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American singer-songwriter 1963

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