Maria

Maria

American Steel
(album: Jagged Thoughts)

The say these colors don´t run
But they bleed in your face
like a bully spitting up a bad taste
after being knocked down a few pegs
you sigh as hard as a rock
it cuts your laugh lines absurd
i´m smiling with irish eyes bloodshot
christmas colored you don´t know what you´ve got
i´m falling apart at the seams
i´m mending this fifth of old age
minding these six strings
it don´t do me a damn
that you got a pretty face baby
it don´t seem to you a damned thing

you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don´t believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped

maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you

im whistling with conviction like a young man in love
like a young man with his pride on sale
baby
join the club
well you´re just darling
with your exclaimed travesties
its a long road so keep your chin up

you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don´t believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped

maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you

i once held a stone also
staring at you naked
daring us to throw
maria you see the good in everything
now i know stones and bones fall
to where they came from

maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you