Lyric discussion by Adored_Pumpkinhead 

"Mary was a black girl and I was afraid of a girl like that"

WTF?!!

@Adored_Pumpkinhead This line "black girl", is about a girl that is into "black magic" or "witch craft." Which would explain why he was "afraid of a girl like that."

@Adored_Pumpkinhead this song’s from the early 80s, a verybdifferent time, when, if you lived in the suburbs, and were white, there was a pretty good chance that the contact you’d have with people of other ethnicities was very fleeting and superficial. It’s possibly hard to understand now, but to a suburban white kid in the 80s, dating a black girl might have seemed exotic.

Hope that helps.

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