Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mary on a Wave , by - Okkervil River. Release date: 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 |