She said she from Portland Where the skies and leaden ocean Left her like the local boys, of emotion As we we watched the raindrops Running the window in Darlinghurst, Like a shop from the past.
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, To her beauty have been the greatest sin It was a profile in the neon and a Kings Cross lean To half an of tending someone else's tangled dream.
There were of sailors, lines of speed Lines upon the Footpath where she When were quiet, as night deferred to dawn. And the coke played red rover In the that scuttled through the streets Taxies left for fields While stretched and yawned
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, There were in the morning, She had in the pain; And the would clutch their husbands Perhaps shared the shame, 'cause working streets and Weddingrings are much the same.
She tap-danced the buskers the subway shouting blues songs They remembered from their years of dreamtime radio. And the years withdrew her eyes To let the little look out In childish innocence At in the sand.
And her called her Mary Mary Magdalene, She had long hair and massage oil And a key to let you in; And the lines upon her face were of roads she'd travelled, Lined with people throwing because they didn't understand, That a half an hour of tenderness (perhaps they the same) working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.