Summer Dress - Shawn Colvin

I put on my finest summer dress

So light and thin it was my best

I brushed my hair I held my breath

I went out to face the wilderness

I went out to face the wilderness

The men in hats the boys on bikes

The perfect girls the baby dykes

The superstars the blighted ones

I went out to face them one by one

I went out to face them one by one

Goodbye MaryAnn

As you turn to watch me

Don’t cry MaryAnn

And don’t try to stop me

I’m gonna go where the lights are bright

Where sacred secrets sail like kites

We’ve been sleeping girl all our lives

And we never lived we just survived

We never lived we just survived

Are there thieves and beggars saints and liars

Are there thieves and beggars saints and liars?

Goodbye MaryAnn

As you turn to watch me

Don’t cry MaryAnn

And don’t try to stop me

I put on my finest summer dress

So light and thin torn at my chest

I brushed my hair I held my breath

I went out to face the wilderness

I went out to face the wilderness.