Outside our place
Mary’s face
Shines in the soft summer sun
Still as a vision
She sits on the stair
Waitin’ to get up and run
A street of dreams
Lies at her feet
Spread ’cross the hot concrete
To future worlds
And paths not taken
To a million girls
And promises forsaken
A trickle of sweat
Glistens on her brow
A sigh of life’s regret
In a long forgotten now
Echoes in the halls
Cry out from the past
Haunting voice callin’
Come in, come on be free at last
So Mary turns to the road
With dreams she has sowed
Gets ready to try
Ready to fly
Through a summer day's haze
A distant radio plays
Down the driveway
To her brand new car
Mary knows she ain't goin' far
A trickle of sweat
Glistens on her brow
A sigh of life’s regret
In a long forgotten now
Echoes in the halls
Cry out from the past
Haunting voices calling
Come in, come on be free at last
She heads to dreams new
The town fades slowly in her rearview
And leaves behind pain that she once knew
Fading memories like old scars
Mary’s finally chasing her own bright stars