Mary on the door
2012, revised 2022, unreleased
“Mary on the door
what do you come for?
Mary on the door
what do you come for?
Mary on the door
…. you stand against fire
Mary on the door
… earth and rain for hire
Mary on the door
… I’d been waiting for so long!
Mary on the door
…. The Romans have close to won.
Mary on my door
…. The Romans have close to won…
Wooden walls stand against fire
as brick estates crumble to the ground
Steel cities, powerless, burn
Affluence fumbles
Debts are returned
I can hear him calling me
to the tracks to re-pay my debts
I can hear him calling me
and yet here I lay, wet
Begging for mercy, Begging for mirth
Begging for something… one need not return to…
The greed of the average man
The greed of the average woman
The greed of the hungry
The greed of the American
The greed of the wealthy
The greed of the sycophant
The greed of the hungry
The greed of the sycophant
Mary on the door!
You stand against fire!
Mary on my door!
I’ve been waiting for so long!
Mary on my door…
Say it won’t be long, now
you think you know what freedom is?
I’m free.
No man under the bridge pities the heir
Mary on the door
what have you come for?
Mary on the door
what have you come for?
Mary on my door
waves on wood
saving grace (alternate: saving grass)
I have sung… And He… has spoken. ..”
~ “Mary on the door” (2012, 2022) by Kelly Alexandra Hoff