Mary Across the Ocean
Jeff Elbel + Ping
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I could lend you a lesson from a long-toothed life Leave you face down and snoring in your dinner If you care for a wager on the last in line Here's your easy money on the winner When I harken back to those Illinois nights When I would sing to the crickets 'bout the L.A. lights Well, it must be the promised land is further west But I couldn't swim that far Mary across the ocean Loving you with deep devotion I've made a task reduction Wanting you my only function So, I set off searching for the golden fleece A destiny I could visualize 'pon Trade the mundane here for the romantic there Waiting just to the south of the horizon I drove all day for Mexico But I broke down in Texas north of El Paso Left my vision of sleeping on the foreign soil 'Cause I couldn't walk that far Mary across the border Left me here in deep disorder I've made a task reduction Finding you my only function Tried to catch that dream We never will 'Cause these legs weren't made for standing still Old Sisyphus; he laid the rule We claw and strive But we never arrive If we did, we'd keep on going by I've spent half of my life just trying to turn your head From high school on to pushing thirty The music's fine, but as I sell myself It only leaves me feeling dirty The truth of the matter is life's not half bad Still, we dream of experiences we've never had I'd run through the pasture rolling thick and green If that fence didn't climb so high Mary across the border Left me here in deep disorder I've made a task reduction Finding you my only function Mary across the ocean Loving you with deep devotion I've made a task reduction Wanting you my only function
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