Onward Chariots

Save Me Maryann

Album: Save Me Maryann [2010]
Author: Ben Marss © Elefant Publishing

Something you looked for for so many years

What a surprise when it comes in a moment

And, crossing the mountains of tears

Stakes a new claim on the peak of the suffering

Led by a vision of faith

Something you saw in a dream

Writes a new page on the face of the fears

Over the face of screams

 

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh you can play me Maryann

Oh like a xylophone

Don’t leave me here all alone

 

In a new country, I pick up the phone

And through the wires I make a new contact now

And the clouds slip away

There’s a new day as the sky makes an opening

Despite the dying storm, I find it hard to feel warm

Takes more than her wordlings, more than her smiles

To carry across the miles

 

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh you can show me, Maryann

Oh show me where to roam

Every ambition strikes home

 

Back in the world, you can float in a daze

Like a balloon that a child let go too soon

So you look for a weight

Something to let out the air so you deflate

This is the highest of things

This is the purest of pure

How can I hold it when you’re not there

Emptiness at my door?

 

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh come and save me, Maryann

Oh I believe in Maryann 

Like she believes in me

Counting the days til we’re free

 

Oh, Maryann