Mary

[Julie]

MARY everybody wants something from
you everybody want a piece of Mary
lush valley all dressed in green just ripe
for the picking God I want to get you out
of here you can ride in a pink mustang
when I think of what we've done to you
oh, Mary, can you hear me?
Tori wants to take away all the pain that people have put Mary through.

growing up
isn't always fun they tore your DRESS
and stole your ribbons they see you
CRY they lick their lips
Just like mean girls (Cornflake Girls if you will), the people who have tried to decipher her have betrayed and tormented her.

but BUTTERFLIES
don't belong in NETS
Something that is supposed to live freely, should not be trapped.

oh Mary, can you
hear me? Mary, you're bleeding Mary,
don't be afraid we're just waking up
and I hear HELP is on the way
Help is the on the way is another way of saying that through the deciphering of her, people have trashed what is really supposed to come out and that is what Tori is trying to do.

Mary,
can you hear me? Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid 'cause even the
WIND CRIES your name
Everything, including the wind knows her pain.

everybody
wants you, sweetheart everybody
got a dream of glory Las Vegas got a
pin-up girl they got her armed as they
buy and sell her rivers of milk are
running dry can't you hear the dolphins
CRYING what'll we do when our babies
scream? fill their mouths with some acid
rain . . .

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: Mary - Tori Amos

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