She said she from Portland Where the ashen and leaden ocean Left her like the local boys, barren of As we we watched the raindrops Running the window in Darlinghurst, Like a fish shop the past.
And her mother her Mary Mary Magdalene, To deny her Would have been the sin It was a in the neon and a Kings Cross Doorway lean To half an of tending someone else's tangled dream.
were lines of sailors, lines of speed Lines upon the Footpath she stared When things were quiet, as night to dawn. And the coke played red rover In the breeze that scuttled the streets Taxies left for greener While Sydney stretched and
And her mother called her After Magdalene, There were in the morning, She had in the pain; And the wives clutch their husbands Perhaps shared the shame, 'cause working streets and Weddingrings are much the same.
She with the buskers Near the subway blues songs They remembered from teenage years of dreamtime radio. And the years withdrew behind her To let the little girl out In childish innocence At in the sand.
And her called her Mary Mary Magdalene, She had long dark and massage oil And a key to let you in; And the upon her face were maps of roads she'd travelled, Lined with people throwing stones because didn't understand, That a half an hour of tenderness (perhaps shared the same) working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.