Mary On A Wave

[Verse 1]

Coal-black virgin spinning

Above an open ocean

I hear, I feel, I need, I know

Seven sailors swimming, shipwrecked

Seven smudgy mirrors

You gotta let 'em go

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Well I checked out the royal place

Saw the babies all bathed in champagne

So many miles of dirt I traveled

Just to park here in your shade

[Chorus 1]

Borne away on a wave of love

Borne away on a wave

[Verse 2]

Well they picked poor Robin clean

In the shadow ravine

I seen the bones, I seen his teeth

Well, it's scrawled upon the streets

Our enemy's victory's complete

And they'll be coming to collect within the next few hundred weeks

[Pre-Chorus 2]

I get a little soft shiver in my shoulder

Cause I think there's someone watching

I get a little soft whistle in my ears now

But I guess it's just time passing

[Chorus 2]

Borne away on a wave of love

Borne away on a wave

[Verse 3]

Blessed blue-black virgin shifting

In the ocean's rhythm

Partly living tissue, partly always hidden

Give me strength & vision

Watch over the earth

It's listing, lady, like it's almost broken

Are my eyes now closed or opened?

[Pre-Chorus 3]

Our parents are fading out, fading out, fading out

Into the fuzzy fuzz

"I can't", I gasp, I gasp and pant

I can't get enough air into my lungs

I see the bald head of a vulture

Come cresting up the stairs

Time holds me, greenish-brown

And dying, in a studio somewhere

[Chorus 3]

Borne away on a wave of love

And it's all for you, girl

Borne away on a wave