Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Kindness Of Strangers [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed
With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows


She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor
She left her home in Arkansas
O poor Mary Bellows


She wanted to see the deep blue sea
She traveled across Tennessee
O poor Mary Bellows


She met a man along the way
He introduced himself as Richard Slade
O poor Mary Bellows


Poor Mary thought that she might die
When she saw the ocean for the first time
O poor Mary Bellows


She checked into a cheap little place
Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase
O poor Mary Bellows


"I'm a good girl, sir", she said to him
I couldn't possibly permit you in
O poor Mary Bellows


Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye
And turned away without goodbye
O poor Mary Bellows


She sat on her bed and thought of home
With the sea breeze whistling all alone
O poor Mary Bellows


In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor
And undid the latch on the front door
O poor Mary Bellows


They found her the next day cuffed to the bed
A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows


So mothers keep your girls at home
Don't let them journey all alone
Tell them this world is full of danger
And to shun the company of strangers
O poor Mary Bellows
O poor Mary Bellow