She said she came Portland Where the ashen skies and leaden Left her like the local boys, barren of As we we watched the raindrops down the window in Darlinghurst, Like a fish from the past.
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, To deny her have been the greatest sin It was a profile in the and a Kings Cross Doorway lean To half an of tending someone else's tangled dream.
There were lines of sailors, lines of Lines upon the Footpath where she things were quiet, as night deferred to dawn. And the coke played red rover In the that scuttled through the streets Taxies left for fields Sydney stretched and yawned
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, There were in the morning, She had in the pain; And the wives would clutch their Perhaps they the shame, working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.
She tap-danced with the Near the subway shouting blues They remembered from their teenage years of radio. And the withdrew behind her eyes To let the girl look out In simple innocence At in the sand.
And her called her Mary After 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, a half an hour of tenderness (perhaps they shared the same) 'cause working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes the same.