Marcie

Marcie in a coat of flowers
Steps inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So she'll wash her flower curtains
Hang them in the wind to dry
Dust her tables with his shirt and
Wave another day goodbye

Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn green is summer
Greens are turning and the sand
All along the ocean beaches
Stares up empty at the sky
Marcie buys a bag of peaches
Stops a postman passing by
And summer goes
Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
Winter blows
Up from the river there's no one to take her
To the sea

Marcie dresses warm its snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and green's for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the hudson river
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letter's been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines
Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream
Dream back to summer and hear how
He tells her
Wait for me

Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again



玛茜穿着鲜花外套
走进一家糖果店
红色是甜的 绿色是酸
还是没有一封信被送到她们前
所以她洗净她的花色窗帘
任它们在风中晾干
再用她的衬衫擦擦桌子
匆匆告别这一天

玛茜的龙头需要一个水管工
玛茜的忧伤需要一个男人
红色是秋 绿色是夏天
而绿色 一直在转变
海岸边的砂砾
空虚地望着蓝天
玛茜买下一包桃子
再次拦住路过的邮递员

夏天走了
如丝带和纸屑般散落在人行道上
冬天的寒风
从不通向大海的小溪
吹来


下雪了 玛茜穿好冬衣
登上通往城郊的出租车
红灯停下 绿灯出发
去看一场表演 再搭车回家
沿着哈德逊河前行
穿过寒风中的船坞
依然没有信件到来
窗外依然是冬天

就像是
在阁楼和地下室慢慢褪色的旧杂志
做个梦吧
梦见回到夏天
梦见他对她说
等着我


后来玛茜还是悄悄走了
没人知道她为何离开 去向何处
红色如愤怒 绿色如羡妒
也许这就是离去的缘故
有人说 曾在星期天见到她
在雨中漫不经心地逛街
也有人说 她买了一张单程车票
再次去往西部