Mary Lyrics

Mary is working freelance in the back of her parents shed

The house is worth a million to a landlord who's nearly dead

She can't afford the dentist

She can't get full time work

Somebody somewhere is trying to calculate her worth

She wants to be deluded

She wants it to be fair

She wants to be forgiven

But there's no one there

Mary has been on the phone to centrelink for hours now

She feels the frantic Mozart is appropriate somehow

She wants to speak to a human but the machine just hangs up

They say that you'll succeed if you just work hard enough

She wants to be deluded

She wants it to be fair

She wants to be forgiven

But there's no one there

Ooooh oooh

It's hard out there

Ooooh oooh

It's cold out there

Ooooh oooh

I cannot bare

How some people get the lift

While others get the stairs

Mary's mum is dying she doesn't know what to do

She needs constant care for the pain she's going through

Mary's not just cash poor, she's time poor too

They will have to sacrifice just to make it through

I want to be deluded

I want it to be fair

I want to be forgiven

But there's no one there

Ooooh oooh

It's hard out there

Ooooh oooh

It's cold out there

Ooooh oooh

I cannot bare

How some people get the lift

While others get the stairs

Mary's on her own now

She's trying to meet a girl

Someone to help her tackle this cruel world

She's sick of being lonely, she's sick of being blue

We all want someone just to tell us what to do