Mary

[Verse 1]
When those thoughts won't come
I know that the shakes will
I've got no gun to my weary head
Hell I couldn't even hold the barrel still
Everybody loves a catch twenty-two
Damned if you don't, son, damned if you do
Outside it's another day that I've got to make it through

[Verse 2]
I know that I said that it'd be all right
It's just gonna take a little while
I'm tried to wait with the patience of Job
It's like bustin' down a prison usin' a broken file
To each his own, and so on
Think each of us, we might own the wrong one
Yeah there might've been some cause cry
I was just tryin' to have some fun

[Chorus]
Yeah Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Oh won't you please throw me a line?
Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Mary, I'm runnin' out of time

[Verse 3]
They say "Hope springs eternal"
I say "Eternity, it springs up hope"
It can overload my feeble mind
It's gonna go lookin' for some ways to cope
I found the bottle or it found me
Tried to turn my future into history
Can anybody hear? Can anybody see?

[Chorus]
Yeah Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Oh won't you please throw me a line?
Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Mary, I'm runnin' out of time

[Chorus]
Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Oh won't you please throw me a line?
Mary, save me 'cause I'm sinkin'
Mary, I'm runnin' out of time