Prayer Without Words - Mary Gauthier

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Packing vagabond visions and a dream drenched hunger
for a home
Swaddled in road dirt, blood stained blankets and
poems
On a stormy suitcase Sunday I awakened to the scream
of the birds
They held their high notes and offered prayer without
words

Sinking in asphalt, speechlessness and what coulda
been
Surrounded by strangers, scarred stars, stoned broken
men
Riding the narcotic night 'til she swerved and smashed
into the curb
Morning spilled from the wreckage and offered prayer
without words

Chains on the mast pull the past, nothing lasts but
nothing ever ends
I leave town, break new ground, break down, leave town
again
Trapped in the circle, anchored to the weight of the
world
Under shooting stars that sink the skies and offer
prayer without words

Justice rides with jaundiced eyes, jaded judges bleed
the broken bench
Liberty's a homicide, she been flogged to death with
money's monkey wrench
Desperado apostates set fire to every holy word we've
heard
Silence billows from the burning book and offers
prayer without words

Surrender, that sweet cleaning girl, folds white flags
in Hallelujah Square
She can't remember where she's been, one day I'm gonna
join her there
Unpack my battered traveling case, hang out a sign
that says "Do Not Disturb"
Dissolve into a dreamless sleep that offers prayer
without words

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Mary Gauthier (born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1962) is an American country and folk singer/songwriter. Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Mary was adopted. At age 15, she ran away from home and stole her parents' car, and spent the next several years in detox, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in jail. These experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on (particularly her song "Drag Queens in Limousines"). Later on, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, but after five years there, dropped out due to drug problems and moved to Boston. After working waitress jobs and eventually being promoted to manager of the restaurant where she worked, financial backers paid her way to attend the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and she opened a Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, "Dixie Kitchen" (also the title of her first album). She wrote her first song at age 35. After the release of her first album, she sold her share in the restaurant to finance her second album, Drag Queens in Limousines. Gauthier is an out lesbian and two of the songs on her first album, "Goddamn HIV" and "Skeleton Town", dealt with AIDS.

Her surname is pronounced "go-chay." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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