She she came from Portland Where the skies and leaden ocean Left her like the local boys, of emotion As we talked we watched the Running down the in Darlinghurst, Like a shop from the past.
And her called her Mary Mary Magdalene, To her beauty have been the greatest sin It was a in the neon 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 she stared When were quiet, as night deferred to dawn. And the cups played red rover In the that scuttled through the streets Taxies for greener fields While Sydney stretched and
And her mother her Mary Mary Magdalene, There were in the morning, She had in the pain; And the wives would clutch their they shared the shame, 'cause working streets and are sometimes much the same.
She tap-danced with the Near the subway shouting songs They remembered from teenage years of dreamtime radio. And the years withdrew behind her To let the girl look out In simple innocence At in the sand.
And her mother called her After Magdalene, She had long dark and massage oil And a key to let you in; And the lines upon her face were maps of she'd travelled, with people throwing stones because they didn't understand, That a half an of tenderness (perhaps they shared the same) 'cause streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.