Bill Lloyd - Marie

Текст с Bandcamp’a: “Townes van Zandt wrote this bleak story of an ordinary man who tries his best, but loses everything and then blames himself. Blaming the powerless for their lack of power is a favourite trick of the powerful. The characterisation of refugees, the unemployed and the homeless as worthless losers with only themselves to blame shows a lack of compassion which ignores the economic realities, debases the finer side of human nature, and shames us all. lyrics Marie. I stood in line and left my name, Took about six hours or so The man just grinned like it was all a game, Said they’d let me know I put in my time till the opencast mine Shut down two years ago I was staying at the mission till I met Marie Now I can’t stay there no more Fella ’cross town said he’s lookin’ for a man, To move some old cars around Maybe me and Marie could find a burned-out van and do a little settlin’ down Aw, but I’m just dreamin’, I’ve got no ride, And the yard’s a fair long way, That job’s a few days old besides It’d be gone now anyway Jobcentre said they stopped my payments, And they showed me to the hall My brother died in Bristol little while ago, I got no one left to call Summer wasn’t bad below the bridge, A little short on food that’s all I got to get Marie some kind of coat We’re headed down into fall I used to play the fiddle pretty good, Busk up a little dough But I got drunk and I woke up rolled, A couple of months ago They got my fiddle and they got my coin, Them low life so and so’s Fiddles cost money and I ain’t got it It’s my own fault I suppose I can’t afford a train but I could always hitch a ride, I could easy get away tonight, If it was just me I’d be headed south, But Marie says it’s not right, She’s got some pain says she thinks it’s a baby, Says we gotta wait and see In my heart I know it’s a little boy, Hope he don’t end up like me Well, the man’s still grinnin’ says he lost my file, I gotta stand in line again I want to kill him but I just say no, I had enough of that, my friend Back to the bridge, it’s getting kinda cold, I’m feelin’ too bad to lie I guess I’ll just tell Marie the truth, Hope she don’t break down and cry Marie she didn’t wake up this morning She didn’t even try, She just rolled over and went to heaven, My little boy safe inside I laid them in the sun where somebody’d find them Hitched a lift out on the fly Marie will know I’m headed south So’s to meet me by and by Marie will know I’m headed south So to meet me by and by from Heavy Duty - Ballads of the Unfree, released February 1, 2018 song by Townes Van Zandt“