Mary the Sweet Sad Lady
(Toby Mountain, Molehill Music)

She sits by the window
And she sips her glass of wine.
And she dreams of love and roses.
It keeps her hopes alive.

She searches for a reason
Through the teardrops on the pane
Why her dreams fall and trickle away
Just like the rain.

Was she ever happy
Mary the Sweet Sad Lady?
Is there sadness in a name?
All the friends around her,
Still she felt a stranger
Only circumstance to blame.

She sits by the window.
She sips her glass of wine.
And she thinks of hugs and kisses.
It makes her warm inside.

She cries and she wonders.
Did she let her youth slip away?
Just a thread a voice still calling
From a world so far away.

Did you ever love me
Mary my Sweet Sad Mary?
Are the memories hard to take?
All the love I gave you
I only tried to save you
From the loneliness and pain.

Toby Mountain, voice & piano
Kronos Quartet, strings