
Date of issue: 09.08.2004
Record label: KOCH Records Nashville
Song language: English
Mariano |
The man outside, he works for me, his name is Mariano |
He cuts and trims the grass for me, he makes the flowers bloom |
He says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato |
That’s two days on a bus from here, a lifetime from this room |
I fix his meals and talk to him in my old broken Spanish |
He points at things and tells me names of things I can’t recall |
But sometimes I just can’t but help from wonderin' who this man is |
And if when he is gone will he remember me at all |
I watch him close, he works just like a piston in an engine |
He only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette |
When the day is ended I look outside my window |
There on the horizon, Mariano’s silhouette |
He sits upon a stone in the south-easterly direction |
I know my charts, I know that he is thinking of his home |
I’ve never been the sort to say I’m into intuition |
But I swear, I see the faces of the ones he calls his own |
Their skin is brown as potter’s clay, their eyes void of expression |
Their hair is black as widows' dreams, their dreams are all but gone |
They’re ancient as a vision of a sacrificial virgin |
Innocent as crying from a baby being born |
They hover 'round a dying flame and pray for his protection |
Their prayers are often answered by his letters in the mail |
He sends them colored figures he cuts from strips of paper |
And all his weekly wages, saving nothing for himself |
It’s been a while since I have seen the face of Mariano |
The border guards, they came one day and took him far away |
I hope that he is safe down there at home in Guanajuato |
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