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"silent mary" is cold comfort song wk041

performed by wolf kier. music copyright wolf kier 2011

It was included as a track on the album "death built in wk-38: wolfkier.bandcamp.com/album/death-built-in
you can purchase a download of the track from his website.

"silent mary" by wolf kier / cold comfort
from the album death built in wk-38
this is folio item number wk 378/400
written recorded 080711
lyrics written 080511
released 081511

see also the collection of wolf kier + nadia cripps versions of cold comfort songs: coldcomfort.bandcamp.com/album/cold-comfort-nadia-cripps-wolf-kier

to hear more wolf kier music please visit wolfkier.bandcamp.com + wolfkier.tumblr.com

lyrics

silent mary by cold comfort

v1:
without a language 15,000 miles from home
four starving children but sometimes Mary feels so all alone
- our Mary.
she scrubs their bathrooms, smiles to please
her cheeks ache and her back hurts, oh how she sleeps
- our Mary

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silent Mary finds a way to feed
her children, her starving children
in a land of golden opportunity
she's barely half what she could be,

our Mary. Our Silent Mary

v2:
with no way out, no bank will save her
she leaves her children all alone at home,
- our Mary
But God provides, yes God Provides,
and the 6 year old has learned to rear a baby.
- our Mary

CHORUS: (see above)

BRIDGE: call/response

With no man, she can no longer cure
With no man, a man's loneliness
With no man, and then endure
With no man, another mouth to feed.
no more will pity make her prey.

she understands that now, silent Mary.
She Understands that now, quiet child
She Understands that's how it's meant to me
She understands that now, our silent Mary

V3:
On Saturday night she smears lipstick on
and smiles in the mirror as if nothing's wrong
- our Mary
and entertains her children with a song
she learned when she was a child herself, not so long ago
- our Mary

CHORUS: (see above)

copyright 2011 cold comfort music (wk041)

credits

from cold comfort 1: collabs, track released September 28, 2011
Lyrics copyright cold comfort music 2011
Music copyright wolf kier

All performance tracks used with express permission of artists involved.

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