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Artist: Cassandra Wilson
Canonical path: /cassandra-wilson/the-wind-cries-mary
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The Wind Cries Mary
Read The Wind Cries Mary lyrics by Cassandra Wilson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Wind Cries Mary
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After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers "mary"
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
And somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind cries "mary"
The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine the emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
Cause the life that lived is dead
And the wind screams "mary"
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
It whispers no this will be the last
And the wind cries "mary"
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Cassandra Wilson performs "The Wind Cries Mary", and this lyric page sits inside the Cassandra Wilson catalog on LyroVerse.
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