You could be a bystander

In a hotel lobby

Thinking that the world all around me

Has gone wrong

You could paint a big picture

Of what you hoped existence

Would turn into the instance

You came along

Oh Mary why’d you have to build these buildings so tall

We’re living in a time that isn’t then it’s something new

So you go and fly on off to Mexico to escape in Tulum

Then you scream and you dance and you go insane

To forget your love and drown the pain

And you fill with regret and your soul it saddens

And then someone says “Mary…”

“Don’t quit before the miracle happens…”

You could be a fair person

With a strong conviction

That’s mistaken for addiction

That doesn’t make it true

If the world is so against you

In the mindset that it sent you

You gotta change the way you frame it

Cause that won’t do

Oh Mary, why’d you stake your happiness on the moon?

What makes you think that when you get there

It won’t just be a big balloon

I see you’re scared again and your bags are packed to fly

Oh so you’re off to Timbuktu

Yea and my heart it hurts for you

Cause there’s no place that you found that you can hide

And you scream and you dance and you go insane

And you ask the lord why he never came

And you’re so dizzy that your soul, it saddens

And then someone says “Mary…”

“Don’t quit before the miracle happens…”

And then you start again

Oh they pack us in boxes in LA, awaiting on the day

For more wide eyed kids to come around

But we never went away

Oh what’s the point in doing this if no one understands

I’m just a simple kind of guy

With a guitar in my hands

And you scream and you dance and you go insane

To forget your love and drown the pain

And you’re so dizzy that your soul, it saddens

And then someone says “Mary…”

“Don’t quit before the miracle happens…”

And then someone says “Mary…”

“Don’t quit before the miracle happens…”

And then you start again