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I am Mary's getaway driver
'Cause being a friend means being for hire
Mary your laughter has grown as thin as your sigh
And I'm helping you leave another man without
Saying good-bye
Hey, Mary, you wear your pride
Like claws and like knives
But being tough only works for awhile
Until you forget
How to smile
Hey, Mary, don't go
Don't do it this time
Hey, Mary, don't go
'Cause soon there'll be no one left to care if you cry
You'll be alone and a-wonderin'
Maybe you should have compromised
Hey, Mary, don't go this time
I am Mary's getaway driver
'Cause she says leaving always takes her higher
I simply supply the
Rescue to save her from things
She'll never commit to
Mary smiles, says she's just carefree
and not meant to be tied down like me
she will busy herself with nothing
pretending as though she can fix
what she ignores
Hey, Mary, don't go
Don't do it this time
Hey, Mary, don't go
'Cause soon there'll be no one left to care if you cry
You'll be alone and a-wonderin'
Maybe you should have compromised
Hey, Mary, don't go this time
I'm more than a driver - I'm an enabler
'Cause part of me likes to think I can save her
Just like a man it feels good to be needed
But I know I'm being used just like he did
Hey, Mary, life is a series of seconds
Built to an end
Your laughter is building nothing
Except seeing how far a giving heart
Can bend, so
Hey, Mary, don't go
Don't do it this time
Hey, Mary, don't go
'Cause soon there'll be no one left to care if you cry
You'll be alone and a-wonderin'
Maybe you should have compromised
Hey, Mary, do not go
Hey, Mary, do not go
Hey, Mary, don't go this time
I am Mary's getaway driver
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“Mary's Getaway Driver is a song that she may have played a few times. It's one of her darker early ones. Not as delightfully creepy as "Nicotine Love" but along similar lines. A studio demo exists from the "Pieces of You" sessions and she recorded it again during the September 1995 sessions with Juan Patino (aka the Phyllis Barnabee sessions). She hasn't played it since the June '96 Java Joe's gig, so if it isn't the only performance, it is the last performance of it.” — Jewel's archivist, Alan Bershaw (MrBB)
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