Grace Potter And The Nocturnals – Ah, Mary

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  General Comment:I don't understand why my post was done as a reply to someone else's?
  
  I didn't mean for that to happen, I just don't understand how this site works.
  
  Whatever.

  Flag Kitty Luxeon March 25, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:OK now I get it - thought the song was about a girl who seems friendly and harmless on the outside but is really deceptive and power-hungry on the inside. But the whole thing is really a metaphor for American politics = Ah Mary - America = clever. Meaning aside, this song rocks and needs more attention. She reminds me a little of Sheryl Crow but a little edgier, at least in the song.

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    ... to be completely honest when I first heard this song on the radio I thought it was about a woman (the narrator) in love with a hard core dyke (the subject). I guess it was because of the lines "She's the beat of my heart, she's the shot of a gun. She'll be the enemy of everyone." (That last one is what I thought it was.) I didn't have anything against that because I'm part of the whole LGBTQ rainbow and I was like "Rock on, sister, rock on!"
    
    Now I read the real lyrics ... oh misconceptions. Ah, mary...
    
    I'm just going to agree with the previous posts. It is a pretty obvious it's about America. "She's the beat of my heart," not necessarily a love thing, just... we live here and obtain our livin' from here. From work to food to...etc... (even though everything is made in china.)

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  General Comment:clearly this song is about the apparent friendly status out put by the U.S but ... she'll burn your town, ... a very good polictical song i think

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  General Comment:This song is clever and political; somewhere GP claims to have never ventured before in song. My favorite part of the song is when she sings, ever so coolly, “Ah, Mary, she’ll bake you cookies then she’ll burn your town.” Before I looked up the lyrics, I thought she sang “tongue” instead of “town”. Either way, she gets her point across. Another bit that gives her stance away is at the end when she sings, “Ah, Mary, Mary, Mary, America.” I love how the words connect. Ah-Mary, America. It is the simple profoundness only a classic rocker can achieve.

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