| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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42 steps posted an insightful point a few years ago, suggesting that the Garabandal apparitions of Mary during the time period just prior to this song being written may have influenced the lyrics. Like other apparitions these were held up to ridicule by many people. Consider: “And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes As who is most to blame today” |
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| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Allowing for poetic license, the lyric: “And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains She left the night before” suggests the blood and dead remains of Jesus at the crucifixion. And the lyric: “Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies, and make them Realize their urgent cry for sight no more” suggests a waking realization of disbelief in Catholic dogma. |
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| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Some lyrics suggest marijuana and some lyrics suggest the Catholic concept of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The lyric: “When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks whose sickness is the games they play,” sounds a lot like a reference to Catholic nuns... | |
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