Mary Anne

Mary Anne, do you remember
The tree by the river
When we were seventeen?
The dark canyon walls
The call and the answer
And the mare in the pasture
Pitch black and bare in its teeth
I recall, the sun in our faces
Stuck and leaning on graces
And being strangers to change
The radio and the bones we found frozen
All the thorns and the roses
Beneath your window pane
Now I'm asleep in a car
I mean the world to a potty-mouth girl
And a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds
Time isn't kind or unkind
You'd like to say
But I wonder to whom
And what it is your saying today?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Now I'm asleep in a car
I mean the world to a potty-mouth girl
And a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds
Time isn't kind or unkind
You'd like to say
But I wonder to whom
And what it is your saying today?
Mary Anne, do you remember
The tree by the river
When we were seventeen?
The dark canyon road
I was coy and the half moon
Happy just to be with you
And you were happy for me