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Don't Cry Marie

from Blossoms And Bicycles by Philip Jeays

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lyrics

DON’T CRY MARIE

Of course you looked much older
When I saw you on the street
A rug around your shoulders
Standing in bare feet
And I remember once you told me
When you were little you ran free
And how you were always barefoot
When you lived by the sea
In those days of little secrets
Sat on your father’s knee

I think that I first saw you
In a cafe by yourself
Or maybe there was Zouzou too
Or maybe someone else
But anyway then along came Betty
She always had a thing for me
She liked to talked of Jesus
And numerology
And how things are never quite
The way they seem to be be

Don’t cry Marie (x 3)
And all along the boulevard
The lights are going out
On our dreams that slip away
Into the cold pachouli dawn
And disappear
Like breath on glass

And watching from a window
A woman stops to stare
At a young man tracing shadows
For his lover in the air
He draws her lies he draws her dreams
And the hopes of better days
And he mirrors her decisions
In a thousand different ways
And the details they don’t matter
As long as she stays

And if you show a little willing
And a little flesh as well
You can turn a pretty shilling
In this small and cheap hotel
And if the police arrive the girls
Slip on a decoy wedding ring
And the artists and the poets
Well they don’t say a bloody thing
And the singers, oh the singers
All they do is sing

Don’t cry Marie (x 3)
And all along the boulevard
The lights are going out
On our loves that slip away
Into the cold pachouli dawn
And disappear
Like breath on glass

The police laid out the stuff
They’d raided in the square
They led a young man off
He looked like Patrick Dewaere
Bet said he could be an angel or a model
Or an actor on TV
You said it doesn’t matter who he is
Or whatever he could be
All our lives are nothing more
Than stones thrown at the sea

And now the night advances
The boys all hang around
Courts of cafe princes
Each one looking to be crowned
Just like the boys you longed to love you
In your dreams so well rehearsed
When you lay in the sand dunes
While they would quench their thirst
And where you fell in love
With whoever got there first

Don’t cry Marie (x 3)
And all along the boulevard
The lights are going out
On our lives that slip away
Into the cold pachouli dawn
And disappear
Like breath on glass

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from Blossoms And Bicycles, released May 7, 2021

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