Marie Lyrics
With your hair piled up high
I will never forget
I'm drunk right now baby
But I've got to be
Or I never could tell you
What you mean to me
I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you Marie
You're a flower, you're a river, you're a rainbow
Sometimes I'm crazy
But I guess you know
And I'm weak and I'm lazy
And I've hurt you so
And I don't listen to a word you say
When you're in trouble I just turn away
Could this be the same Marie referred to in "Birmingham?"
This song is on the thematic album Good Old Boys, about southern rednecks. The "I" is Marie's husband, a drunk who works in the steel mills of Birmingham, Alabama, and sings about his home town in another one of the songs on the album. The sad melody is matched by the poignant and ironic lyrics: this guy is a terrible husband -- crazy, weak, laxy, doesn't listen, doesn't even help his wife when she's in trouble -- and yet he professes his undying love for her! One of the many hypocrisies expressed on this album's indictment of the south.
This song has my name in it so it is cool even though I have never heard it OH well :)
YAY! This song is perfect, because my girlfriends name is Marie. . .
This is a really sweet song. In the liner notes on his Best Of album, Randy wrote that he always thought it was a funny idea that a guy couldn't tell a girl how he felt without being drunk. Sweet. In the southern way, anyway.
....hi greetings from little Singapore....allow me to give my 2 cents worth...n with a bit of gossiping if I might..... Some of Mr Newman songs are truly beautifully crafted with meloloc drops....ths is one of them.... ...I tink ths song could b written for ms Linda Marie ronstadt.....my karmic apologies to both...if wrong