Album Name : Sweet Relief - A Benefit for Victoria Williams
Release Date : 1997-11-03
Song Duration : 5:37
Pearl Jam Crazy Mary
oh, she lived on a curve in the road
in an old dark paper shack
on the south side of town
on the wrong side of the tracks
sometimes on the way into town
we'd say,"mother, can we stop and give her a ride?"
sometimes we did
but her hands flew from her side
wild-eyed crazy mary
and on a long dreary road
past the Parson's Place
the old go-cart we used to race
a little country store with the sign tacked to the side
said NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G A-LLOWED
underneath that sign congregated quite a crowd
take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
oh, take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
pass it *a-uh
take a bottle, drink it down, pass it *a
pass it *a, pass it a-round
one night, the thunder cracked,
mercy back outside the windowsill
i dreamed i was flyin high above the trees
over the hills
looked down into the house of mary
a bare bald spot, newspaper colored walls
and mary risin up above it all...
next mornin on the way into town
i saw some skidmark upon the ground
over the curve, through the field
to the house of mary
that which you fear the most could meet you half way
that which you fear the most it could meet you half-way
take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around 3x's
*Eddie Vedder doin his thing
note-this is the New York Live Version