North Bronx French Marie

The light rushing against the window
Of American landscape night
Typical Tuesday night
My love is standing in the doorway
As she unlocks the screen door for me
Juvenile fantasy

Still, houses whisper ever so silently
I'm alone on the sidewalk, you see
Waiting for French Marie

Look what the New York summer's done
You're in a punk-rock T-shirt, melting in the sun
But it's not the heat, but your sweet humility
That shakes my tree
Sticks to me
French Marie
Shakes my tree
Sticks to me
French Marie

I'm waiting to see where the wind blows
Maybe she's lost, and thought about me
The way I like her to be
Tomorrow, she'll ask, Why you wait so long for me?
Are you all-night out, baby?
No, that would be too crazy

I tell her, Girl, don't flatter yourself so
But you know I'm deep in check, you see
Waiting for French Marie

Look what the New York summer's done
You're in a punk-rock T-shirt, melting in the sun
Hey, but it's not the heat, but your sweet humility
That shakes my tree
Sticks to me
French Marie
Shakes my tree
Sticks to me
French Marie

Well, she smokes half my cigarettes and laughs at me
And asks if all the Negroes are like me
Well, baby
Me
Well, baby

Tonight, I sleep with television
The warm, talkative lover
Sexy electric
North Bronx Marie is somewhere screaming at the leaves
Of a hopeless brother
I guess her life is hectic

I'd like to think she needs a fireman like me
To get her out of a family tree
The way I'd like her to be

Well, look what the New York summer's done
You're in a punk-rock T-shirt, melting in the sun
But it's not the heat, but your sweet humility

Look what the New York summer's done
Well, you're in a punk-rock T-shirt, melting in the sun
Hey, but it's not the heat, but your sweet humility
That shakes my tree
Sticks to me
French Marie

Look what the New York summer's done
Sticks to me
French Marie
Look what the New York summer
Shake my tree
Stick to me
French Marie
Look what the New York summer
Shake my tree
Stick to me
French Marie
Look what the New York summer's done