Natalie Merchantco-founded and fronted the successful band 10,000 Maniacsin 1981, but left the band in 1993 and started a successful solo career. Merchant plays the piano, produces and writes many of her songs. Her debut solo album (1995) had three top-40 singles: ' Carnival', ' Jealousy' and ' Wonder'. This was followed in 1998 with her second solo album , and her third in 2001 with . Merchant has sung alongside Tracy Chapman, Michael Stipe, David Byrneand Peter Gabriel.
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But Not For Me Lyrics

Natalie Merchant

They're writing songs of love
But not for me.
A lucky star's above
But not for me.
With love to lead the way
I've found more skies of gray
Than any Russian play
Could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall
And get that way
Heigh ho alas and
Also lackaday.
Although I can't dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he's not for me.
I know that love's a game
I'm puzzled all the same
Was I the moth or flame
I'm all at sea.
It all began so well
But what an end.
This time a gal could sure
Use a friend
When every happy plot
Ends in a marriage knot
And there's no knot for me.