每个人在本质上过的是一样的日子，不一样的是你的心在感受什么。如果你不能正视自己，那就根本谈不上任何改变，也就没有任何机会了。人得有把自己逼到绝境的勇气。 ——廖一梅《像我这样笨拙地生活》

Natalie Merchant绝对不是美女，担任10000 Maniacs的主唱十年，是90年代民谣创作女声风潮中的重要声音之一，创作功力不容小觑。有人说，“Natalie Merchant的不寻常在于，她演绎了一种界乎于民谣、流行和摇滚边缘的音乐。
听Natalie Merchant需要安静和歌词。你需要安静，去细细品味音乐的质朴和温暖；你需要歌词，因为看似漫不经心的吟唱，会让你忽视诗人真挚的情怀。” Merchant的抒怀创作风格，被比拟为流行乐坛的Emily Dickinson (19世纪美国文学界最具影响力的女诗人之一，担任10000 Maniacs的主唱十年。质朴动人的民谣添加学院派气质，以"Trouble Me"、"These Are Days"、"Because The Night"等作品跨越全美流行、现代摇滚与成人抒情电台。
这首《Motherland》选自专辑《Motherland》。（网络整理）

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歌词：
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

O, my five & dime queen
Tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice
The bottomless, the cavernous greed
Is that what you see?

Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don't go

It's your happiness I want most of all
And for that I'd do anything at all, o mercy me!
If you want the best of it or the most of all
If there's anything I can do at all

Now come on shot gun bride
What makes me envy your life?
Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,
What's that like to be?

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