mary jane says it s all right she s just around the corner from the main light any day now it s all right she s standing on the precipice of big time and i know i m a little uptight and i ve got to go before the sun shines yeah we re just a couple small people squeezing out a life we need a little good time it s not far from the edge mary comes and goes drifting through the scenery of the shallow days below and as everybody knows you follow trains out of town and they vanish somewhere under the horizon yeah well i saw mary jane dragged her shadow down the tracks and fade off in the distance it s not far from here mary waves hello smiling though she s sinking in the shallow days below oh no i can t find a way out of here out on the road again i m much much too concerned about mary jane i m all alone again and i like what she said but not what it means she leaves me drowning through the shallow days down below you know i heard a band playing waltzes in a grange hall the sun is sinking lower people staring mary jane humming softly to herself but nobody really knows her and any day now it s all right she tells herself that this will be the last time and mary jane pulls her hair back and wonders what she ll do with all her free time not too far from here mary turns to go smiling while the waltz begins dancing down the road oh no hey hey mr freedom what are we supposed to think cause i m a very tiny person and it worries me i m all alone again and i like what she says but not what it means she leaves me drowning in the shallow days way down below yeah yeah yeah i m sorry she said i know it s not the kind of thing you want i m falling falling down i m sorry she said i know i m not the kind of girl you want we re falling oh falling oh falling falling down