Marie - Bruce Springsteen

Marie, she comes to me in the twilight

When the wind blows down across the river

So cold, the fishermen cry

She rapes me in a rage of rainbow violence

Till my bare nerves, they sing

Like the strings of a violin

And the room seeps into a savage silence

Soaked in colours, red as blood, blue as night

And Marie she skins me alive

Carves her initials in my side

Lures me with her purrs and cuts me with her knife

And the horses pound like thunder

They bolt like lightning on her range

She feels she's going under and she zeros in the rein

She's so strange

Well, Marie, you know, she's the queen of all the stallions
And I'm her prince of mules
And one of her principal fools
Marie, she's got the claws of a falcon
And she's perched on my shoulder, and slowly digging in
But she, oh she can be so strange sometimes
Like at night ...
Or when the neighbors come to dine
Marie, she skins me alive
Burns her initials in my hide and then leaves me all alone
Branded to the bone

And my heart pounds like her horses
Oh, stampeding on the range
Marie knows all the sources
And she shoots me with her pain
And for her, I take it, Lord, down in my veins

And I watch her dance like some berserk fairy
All across the concrete prairies of Bleecker Street
Marie, she can be so strange
But she's the only lonely cowgirl on my range

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