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After all the jacks are in their boxes
and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
and shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
'cause the life that lived is,
is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
the names it has blown in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
it whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
and shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
'cause the life that lived is,
is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
the names it has blown in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
it whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
Lyrics submitted by , edited by cgbigfoot, carl115821
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Part 1: Boy meets girl, party late at night, she has "footprints dressed in red" cute red shoes...
Part 2: Their relation ship ends in sadness. She weeps, he is now alone.
Part 3: "The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow" is a positive pregnancy test. "The tiny island sags downstream 'Cos the life that they lived is dead." She has an abortion.
Part 4 is about his own regrets...
@TotoLeTroll Brilliant literal interpretation.