Maria In Motion

Maria, Maria, Maria

You look so fine to me

Your skin is brown like caramel

All sprawled out in the moonlight

You lie like a lavender twilight

Would you still be cloaked in fog?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh

Would you still be cloaked in fog?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh

She used to kneel in bed to hold me like a marionette

But you're not a mother, you're a dancer with no strings attached

Maria, Maria, Maria, she's just a child

Who asked me to make her a woman

But I am not the one who pays for the clothes and her schooling and cares for her

And will she take care of me when she herself is strong, oh

I am with child, my skin's turned pale

So I am begging you, please just

I will honor your request

Never travel to Mexico and see silver objects there under a pale moon

But from that sterile palette, will I know how to love her?

I am in love with learning, the knowledge that I am safe

So I will teach you something called inmovil

Look up in the sky, my love, a stationary bird, so still

So still, I need to describe you with pictures inmovil

Mira al cielo, mi amor, un ave inmovil

Mira al cielo, mi amor, un ave inmovil

Maria, Maria, Maria, oh, she's just a child

Who asked me to make her a woman

But I am not the one who pays for the clothes and her schooling, and cares for her

And will she take care of me when she herself is strong

I see you in your window sometimes, watching the swirling clouds

I am on a lazy river, where it never ends

And I think I may write you sometime via internet

No matter what the hackers find, they can't change what I have sent