- Mer Girl
Song infobox
Name = Mer Girl
Artist = Madonna
Album =Ray of Light
Released =March 3 1998
track_no = 13
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Pop/Electronica
Length = 5:31
Writer = Madonna,William Orbit
Label = Maverick, Warner Bros.
Producer = Madonna,William Orbit
Chart position =
prev = "Little Star"
prev_no = 12
next = "Has to Be " (Japanese edition)
next_no = 14"Mer Girl" is a highly experimental pop/
electronica song by American superstar Madonna, found on herGrammy Award -winning album "Ray of Light ".ong information
"Mer Girl", a slow, experimental track featuring few instruments, is one of the many deeply personal songs on "
Ray of Light ", Madonna's first album to be released following her introduction to Kabbalah and the birth of her first child, Lourdes. The song itself was supposedly recorded in one take, thus the sounds of breath between some verses throughout the song. Though Madonna sings of "the man that I cannot keep" and "my daughter that never sleeps", the song deals mostly with "my mother who haunts me, even though she's gone". The song's lyrics find Madonna running, past "the churches and the crooked old mailbox", until she can run no further and "the earth took me in her arms". Confronted with her mother's "rotting bones / her decay", Madonna concludes that "I'm still running away", even after thirty-five years.In 2001, Madonna performed "Mer Girl" in two segments, separated by "Sky Fits Heaven", on her
Drowned World Tour .
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