Shovels & Rope - Mary Ann & One Eyed Dan lyrics

Mary Ann was a waitress at the circus Dan was a writer for the Delaware Locale Observer Just 21 and just two months out of the service missing half an eyelid so he had to wear a patch Mary Ann introduced herself to Dan she said, "do you like the menu or do you need me to read it to you?" half way angry half turned on and half confused he took her by the arm and went out back to make a match and he said.... "So long to my former life to a worried life so long. So long to a harder life to a troubled life so long." lying there under the soft glow of the sunrise the moon was still awake and all the generators lowly humming she picked a flower and fastened it on to his bad eye she said, "Come on let's get married. I think we might get along." and she said... "So long to my former life to a selfish life so long. So long to a bitter life. to a troubled life so long." Dan he was no poet couldn't dance he never slept he had nightmares every night of rain and fire on those bloody beaches just then the dew dropped from the flower and he wept Mary Ann you are a melody I think I wrote a song it goes like... "so long to my worried life to a lonesome life so long. so long to a wandering life to a wounded life so long." and we all said... "so long to those memories to everything we can't let go so long. so long to our former selves to our selfish selves so long."