Down on Columbus while the pretty girls sigh
Maria blows past like a storm in July
She steals the breath from me, blows back what's left of me
The star of her own show
But now Maria Maria don't know
Maria Maria don't know
She's the tail of a comet, she's the foam of the sea
She's twelve bolts of lightning that keep striking me
Without simplicity I trace complicity
By every curl of her hair
But now Maria Maria don't care
Maria Maria don't care
I still can't shake all the trouble that I'm sinking in
When she jumps with me I can't help from falling again
Midnight leans back and then calls out her name
And we both know the story the scene's just the same
In this vague history, there's not much mystery
At least not to me anyway
So now Maria Maria don't stay
Maria Maria don't stay
Her eyes look different in the light of the day
When there's not much to do and little to say
She says there's nothing kind about an unmade mind
And never's better than late
So now Maria Maria won't wait
Maria Maria don't wait
I still can't shake all the trouble that I'm sleeping in
When she jumps with me I can't help from falling again
Again again and again
Too anxious to stay, too careful to choose
With nothing to win, but something to lose
We live love in between what we do and what we mean
But darling we're young enough to know
So now Maria Maria don't go
Maria Maria don't go
