Mary on a Wave - Okkervil River

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

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

Borne away on a wave of love

Borne away on a wave

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

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

Borne away on a wave of love

Borne away on a wave

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?

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

Borne away on a wave of love

And it’s all for you, girl

Borne away on a wave