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Date of issue: 08.09.2016
Song language: English
Mary on a Wave |
Coal-black virgin spinning |
Above an open ocean |
I hear, I feel, I need, I know |
Seven sailors swimming, shipwrecked |
Seven smudgy mirrors |
You gotta let 'em go |
Well I checked out the royal place |
Saw the babies all bathed in champagne |
So many miles of dirt I traveled |
Just to park here in your shade |
Borne away on a wave of love |
Borne away on a wave |
Well they picked poor Robin clean |
In the shadow ravine |
I seen the bones, I seen his teeth |
Well, it’s scrawled upon the streets |
Our enemy’s victory’s complete |
And they’ll be coming to collect within the next few hundred weeks |
I get a little soft shiver in my shoulder |
Cause I think there’s someone watching |
I get a little soft whistle in my ears now |
But I guess it’s just time passing |
Borne away on a wave of love |
Borne away on a wave |
Blessed blue-black virgin shifting |
In the ocean’s rhythm |
Partly living tissue, partly always hidden |
Give me strength & vision |
Watch over the earth |
It’s listing, lady, like it’s almost broken |
Are my eyes now closed or opened? |
Our parents are fading out, fading out, fading out |
Into the fuzzy fuzz |
«I can’t», I gasp, I gasp and pant |
I can’t get enough air into my lungs |
I see the bald head of a vulture |
Come cresting up the stairs |
Time holds me, greenish-brown |
And dying, in a studio somewhere |
Borne away on a wave of love |
And it’s all for you, girl |
Borne away on a wave |
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