“the color of the sky as far as I can see is coal gray
lift my head from the pillow and then fall again
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather
a quiver in my lips as if I might cry”

—  Natalie Merchant

Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), Like The Weather

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American singer-songwriter 1963

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