The Mercy Seat Lyrics

At the turn of the century I did many things to protect myselfI did many things to protect myselfI made myself a needle-boyAnd I hid him in the closetAnd I made myself a money-manA...Read Full Lyrics

I've felt you coming girl, as you drew nearI knew you'd find me, 'cause I longed you hereAre you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear?Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?We...Read Full Lyrics

As I walk these narrow streetsWhere a million passing feet have troped before meWith my guitar in my handSuddenly I realize nobody knows meWhere yesterday the multitudeScreamed and...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

Stranger than kindnessBottled light from hotelsSpilling everythingWet hand from the volcanoSobers your skinStranger than kindness You caress yourselfAnd grind my soft cold bones be...Read Full Lyrics

Get down, get down, little Henry LeeAnd stay all night with meYou won't find a girl in this damn worldThat will compare with meAnd the wind did howl, and the wind did blowLa la la ...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

Come over here, babeIt ain't that badI don't claim to understandThe troubles that you've hadBut the dogs you say they fed you toLay their muzzles in your lapAnd the lions that they...Read Full Lyrics

Once there came a storm, the form of a girlIt blew to pieces my snug little worldSometimes I swear I can still hear it howlDown through the wreckage and the ruinsAnd it ain't gonna...Read Full Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics