After all the jacks are in their boxes, And the clowns have all gone to bed, You can hear happiness staggering on down the street, Footprints dress in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life Somewhere a Queen is weeping, Somewhere a King has no wife
And the wind it cries Mary
The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed, The tiny island sags downstream 'Cos the life that they lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past, And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom It whispers, "No, this will be the last."