Mer Girl
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| "Mer Girl" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by Madonna | ||
| from the album Ray of Light | ||
| Released | March 3, 1998 | |
| Recorded | 1998 | |
| Genre | Pop/Electronica | |
| Length | 5:31 | |
| Label | Maverick/Warner Bros. | |
| Writer(s) | Madonna, William Orbit | |
| Producer(s) | Madonna, William Orbit | |
| Ray of Light track listing | ||
| "Little Star" (12) |
"Mer Girl" (13) |
"Has to Be" (Japanese edition) (14) |
"Mer Girl" is a highly experimental pop/electronica song by American superstar Madonna, found on her Grammy Award-winning album Ray of Light.
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"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. 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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