Mary's Getaway Driver

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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

Mary's Getaway Driver “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)