Jolie Holland

Mexican Blue

Jolie Holland


You're like a saint's song to me 
I'll try to sing it pure and easily 
You're like a Mexican blue 
So bright and clear and pale in the afternoon 
I saw you riding on your bike 
In a corduroy jacket in the night 
Past the hydrangeas that were blooming in the alley 
With a galloping dog by your side 
When I was hungry you fed me 
I don't mean to suggest that I'm like Jesus Christ 
Your light overwhelmed me 
When I lay beside you sleepless in the night 
And when you dreamed my guardian spirits appeared 
And the moon stretched out across your little bed 
They said they'd started to get worried about me 
They were happy we had finally met 
We had finally met 

A mysterious bird flies away 
Seemed to be calling your name 
And bounced off the top of a towering pine 
And vanished in the drizzling rain 
There's a mockingbird behind my house 
Who is a magician of the highest degree 
And I swear I heard him rip the world apart 
And sew it back again with his fiery melody, melody 

When you were mad at me I didn't care 
And I just loved you all the same 
And I waited for the wind to push the hurricane 
Out to sea, and the sun could shine again 
Oh I don't mean to give you advice 
Its just liek Delia said, "oh, Jesus Christ" 
Just don't get so hight you leave the ground 
Everything is so much better when you're around 
Just don't float so hight you drift away 
Stand tall, with your feet on the ground 
I love your songs, I love your sound 
Everything is so much better when you're around 

When the moon is as clear as an opal 
And the amethyst river sings a song 
I'll remember all your dreams and the mysteries 
You have borne in your crystalline soul 
That you sing from your golden throat 
That you shine from your sparkling eyes 
That you feel from the goddess in your thighs 

You're like a saint's song to me 
I'll try to sing it pure and easily 
You're like a Mexican blue 
So bright and clear and pale in the afternoon 
In the afternoon