This does not include any songs from projects that predate Gaslight Anthem such as This Charming Man and Surrogate McKenzie. The underlying tune of amazing grace which plays from the final chorus onwards, repeatings the lines of appreciation for someone "saving a wretch like me", things may not be the best for them but he must have been really unhappy or unfortunate before he met her and regardless of how she acts and how difficult things get he has that motivation to keep running forward for the hope of a better life and never to go back to the life that made him so unhappy.I had been thinking about some of Brian's most common motifs like radio and blood and Mary, so I decided to see just how many times all of these songs were used. For sickness and in health, for better and for worse. "i learned how to compromise while the whirlwind hurricane turned" to stand by her even at there worst times. I find the final verse the most interesting, to me it speaks of marriage vows, "i learned to hold you while your body burned" to care for her when she's ill. He feels like he means so little to her now that he is just like an accessory for he, "she wears me just like a ring". Verse three, starts off so optimistic, he's still smiling so much so its compared to the fireworks on the 4th of july, mary on the other hand has changed, there fighting, she's taking her anger out on him and he still has the patience and love for her to take sympathy on her when she's upset afterwards when she "cries like a baby". The second verse, mary is lonely, she's crying herself to sleep at night with him working away, working nights and every hour he can to make money, he's still in love with her and expresses' it in a brilliant line "i fell asleep most nights with your pictures right behind my eyes" I think that at this stage there both running in separate directions, he's trying to move forward and carry on running towards his dreams whereas she wants to run away and give up on everything. Mary on the other hand may not have been the person he had hoped she would have been, she's not happy, she's not trying to make it work and the only thing she has learnt is "just how to run". In verse one, he's working hard, trying his best to make the life he had promised her, he's learnt many things from this adventure he's undertaken but most of all he's learnt "how to run". Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse? The couple are still searching for the promised land but have hit hard times, he's constantly having to reassure her that its just a bad time and that they will come through it better off, he however is doubting if they ever will find what there looking for, he's starting to see it as a fantasy, "swirling around his head like the dreams in Dorothy's shoes". in thunder road mary and the male character decide to take a chance and search for the promised land, to leave everything behind in the hope of a better future, a fairytale future perhaps but i see the blues mary as a second chapter in that story. I believe is a sequel to Bruce Springsteens thunder road, i think its about an unnamed male character who is infatuated with mary. We fell asleep most nights with each other's blood on our tongues, I Learned how compromise while this whirlwind hurricane turned I Learned how to hold you while your body burned She cries like a baby (cries like a baby) The cause for smile, is bright like the ramparts on the 4th of JulyĪnd my baby swings like a boxer, and sends her right hooks onto my chin The killer and the victim arrive, right at the same time I fell asleep most nights with your pictures right behind my eyes, I learned to get by with the dogs and the dirt and the charm of the street You learned how to cry in them lonesome September nights Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes I fell asleep most nights with somebody else's blood on my tongue, I learned how to lie and cheat, how to steel and just how to run I learned how to hammer in the burning August sun (Went off the acoustic version, so words may vary slightly)
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