The Mercy Seat Lyrics

Down the road I look and there runs MaryHair of gold and lips like cherriesWe go down to the river where the willows weepTake a naked root for a lovers seatThat rose out of the bit...Read Full Lyrics

Christina the AstonishingLived a long time agoShe was stricken with a seizureAt the age of twenty-twoThey took her body in a coffinTo a tiny church in LiegeWhere she sprang up from...Read Full Lyrics

OkayWell, you lost a foeAnd you found a friendLie down here and be my girlI'm back now, baby, that manHe won't be coming 'round here againLie down here and be my girlI'll try to tr...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead RowOf which I am nearly wholly innocent, you knowAnd I'll say it againI am not afraid to dieI began to warm and chill...Read Full Lyrics

I am a crooked manAnd I've walked a crooked mileNight, the shameless widowDoffed her weeds, in a pileThe stars all winked at meThey shamed a childYour funeral, my trialOne thousand...Read Full Lyrics

They call me The Wild RoseBut my name was Elisa DayWhy they call me it I do not knowFor my name was Elisa DayFrom the first day I saw her I knew she was the oneShe stared in my eye...Read Full Lyrics

You better run You better run You better run and run and runYou better run You better runYou better run and run and run and run and runYou better run You better runYou better run t...Read Full Lyrics

I've been contemplating suicide,But it really doesn't suit my style,So I think I'll just act bored insteadWho can take (alt: and contain) the blood I would've shed?She makes me fee...Read Full Lyrics

I hold this letter in my handA plea, a petition, a kind of prayerI hope it does as I have plannedLosing her again is more than I can bearI kiss the cold, white envelopeI press my l...Read Full Lyrics