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She's a walking talking breathing New Age wonder, old time heathens
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Don't know what to make of Mary Jane
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'Cause she ain't trying to be no swami, she ain't mad at dad and mommy
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She don't curse the storm clouds when it rains
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When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she make everything look fine
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She got moon in her eyes, crescent windows on the skies
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And the rain comes down in sheets on the people in the streets
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And it carries all the secrets that they keep to the river where she sleeps
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She comes to me when I'm dejected, leaves her soul out unprotected
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Tells me that the truth can make me free
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And she don't need what she ain't got, she reads me books by Alan Watts
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Speaking words o' wisdom: 'Let it be'
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When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she take thunder for a sign
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She got stars in her head, supernovas in her bed
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And it rains most every day, but I (like it fine that way
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'Cause the waters run so marvelous and deep in the river where she sleeps
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Mary ain't inclined to drinking, still she stumbles without thinking
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Anywhere she gets the urge to stray
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And everybody knows about her, they don't want to change or doubt her
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They just grin when she comes out to play
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When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she be moving down the line
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She got bells on her toes, generations in her clothes
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And she sings without a sound as the evening rolls around
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And she dances as the twilight shadows creep down the river where she sleeps
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Professor come to burst my bubble, says that girl is bound for trouble
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Serves me solace in a paper cup
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But it looks a bit like agent orange and when he leaves he slams the door and
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Just about that time she phones me up
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When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just ain't the worrying kind
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She got dogs, she got cats, she keeps rabbits in her hats
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And the people that she sees, they're all buddhas or police
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And the banks rise high and perilous and steep by the river where she sleeps
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Now one dismayed December dawn. I wake to find my Mary's gone
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And no one knows when she'll come back again
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And all the silent temple bells from Styx to Glenn to Hazel Dell
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Are mourning all the nights that might have been
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When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just leave this world behind
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She got wheels in her smile, she can coast along for miles
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Me, I'm walking all alone, feeling soulful to the bone
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'Til I stop and I hang my head and weep by the river where she sleeps
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