She said she from Portland Where the skies and leaden ocean Left her like the local boys, barren of As we talked we the raindrops down the window in Darlinghurst, Like a shop from the past.
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, To deny her have been the greatest sin It was a profile in the neon and a Cross Doorway lean To an hour of tending someone else's tangled dream.
There were lines of sailors, lines of upon the Footpath where she stared When things were quiet, as deferred to dawn. And the coke played red rover In the breeze that scuttled the streets left for greener fields While Sydney stretched and
And her called her Mary Mary Magdalene, There virgins in the morning, She had sisters in the And the wives would their husbands Perhaps they the shame, 'cause streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.
She tap-danced with the Near the subway blues songs They remembered from their teenage years of radio. And the years withdrew behind her To let the little look out In simple childish At in the sand.
And her mother her Mary Mary Magdalene, She had long dark hair and oil And a key to let you in; And the lines upon her were maps of roads she'd travelled, Lined with people throwing because they didn't understand, That a half an of tenderness (perhaps they shared the same) working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.