Sister Mary - Big Engine

Sister Mary’s got some

Strange medicine lately

Keeps her up all night

Makes her sleep all day

Woke up this morning to the pouring rain

Sister Mary cries on the floor

She drank some coffee and she tried to explain

What she stayed up all night for

She says I know how it feels and what it means

To crash the sky, to fly so high on the wings of my dreams

Well every diamond shines but every flower fades

And Sister Mary won’t be the same

She checked her makeup and I lit her cigarette

And she says mirror mirror on the wall

Who’s the fairest child with a soul full of regret?

And nothin' thrills me anymore

She says remember when your friends called me the queen

They used to hang around, make whistle sounds back when I was 16

I’m so afraid to hear what they’d call me today

Your Sister Mary oh what a shame

And I promise I remember

Days of poetry and pain

And she swore that she would never surrender

Sister Mary won’t be the same