"Marlee" lyrics

MARLEE                               By Steve Graff

Marlee you give it all away

till you’re left with nothing good

Father he bent the bars and fled

All that life—he borrowed and bled.

Jesus on the wooded lake

Briefly restive then as smoke

Marlee wanted something to bring her to

Something to make her feel like she was new.

REFRAIN:

Your steady nerve given us light my dear

Your fixed on stare your auburn hair.

Swimming in..the doorway dark,

With hint of sunlight sublime and stark.

She fell like a weight into the death of town

The darkness and traders spinning round

Where someone good says “Marlee, go back home,

Where they wait for you in the window light…

SOLO

REFRAIN

But she fell and her pictures they scattered

Held her tears, they were torn and battered

Couldn’t look us in the eye

“my trembling hands, my lips so dry.

Give me something for my hopeless mind

Wear me down like a spindle in a lathe.

I want you one last blessed time,

Melt my heart and my frozen faith.

I want you one last blessed time,

Melt my heart and my frozen faith.