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Mary Bell Lyrics
Let the evening in now
Let the darkness come
Shadows in your room unfold the night
Time to go to sleep now
for every man and child
Tonight you're still protected by the blackness
One was nearly seven
Her sister almost five
You'll tell us all tomorrow, Mary Bell
About how smoothly things went
and how they didn't fight
You're going back there, Mary Bell
And tell us how you found out
what no child should know
Tell us about the killing, Mary Bell
The night is dark above you
The universe is quiet
Tonight you're still protected by the blackness
Let the darkness come
Shadows in your room unfold the night
for every man and child
Tonight you're still protected by the blackness
Her sister almost five
You'll tell us all tomorrow, Mary Bell
and how they didn't fight
You're going back there, Mary Bell
what no child should know
Tell us about the killing, Mary Bell
The universe is quiet
Tonight you're still protected by the blackness
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Mary Bell was a 10-year-old English girl who murdered two little boys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell
Stina obviously changes the facts here. "One was nearly seven, her sister almost five" - the two boys Bell killed were 4 and 3. Gives the song a coating of fiction and universality. How many children are abused? How many go on to abuse others? Stina wants to protect Mary Bell, wants her to be safe, before it all went wrong for her...