From the recording Mirror Flame
Lyrics
Mary, Mary
Quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
If you’ve been hurting
Feeling angry
Won’t you let me know?
Won’t you let me know?
I remember the night when
I first met you
We sang a song to
The siren together
In somebody’s kitchen,
The connection was instant
Saw my soul’s reflection
There in your eyes
Was that foolish of me?
Was I just too young
Too young and green
To see you as you were?
Broken-winged bird
You sang so sweetly
Clear as a bell
You may well think that
I am a coward
As the years go by
In silence and distance
But what is the point in
Saying you’re sorry
If you still can’t tell me
What went so wrong?
I’m sorry I lost my patience
With all your obsessions
And strange superstitions
It was hard to see you
Slowly unravelling
Smoking and drinking
Alone in the shadows
Mary, Mary
It really killed me
When you pulled the rug
Out from underneath me
I packed the car quickly
And left there directly
To lay down abjectly
For too long to mention
I still think about you
Just from time to time
I think of each cruel little
Word that you wrote
In that awful note
You left at the front door
To say you were gone
Do you still talk about me?
Are the things that you call me
Behind my back
The same ones as they were?
Broken-winged bird
You sang so sweetly
Clear as a bell
Last time I was in town
I saw you walking
On the side of the road
In the same clothes you always wore
I felt my panic
And pain reviving
I kept on driving
And didn’t look back