The Mercy Seat Lyrics

All the towers of ivory are crumblingAnd the swallows have sharpened their beaksThis is the time of our great undoingThis is the time that I'll come runningStraight to youFor I am ...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

There was a girl, call her "Animal X"Twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-fiveIt's hard to tell, it's hard to tellShe comes from the city where there is light and airWhere you can watch...Read Full Lyrics

Plain gold ring on her finger she woreIt was where everyone could seeIt belonged to someone, but not meOn her hand she wore a plain gold ringPlain gold ring's got a story to tellIt...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

Look-a look-a yonder (3x)Well the sun done goneThe captain can't hold her (3x)The way I do nowAda got a gold mine (3x)Way above her kneesThe shiv (?) is golden (3x)Above her kneesL...Read Full Lyrics

She walks these hills in a long black veilShe visits my grave when the night winds wailNobody knows, nobody seesNobody knows but meTen years ago, on a cold dark nightSomeone was ki...Read Full Lyrics

And no-one saw the carny goThe weeks flew byUntil they moved on the showLeaving his caravan behindIt was parked out on the south east ridgeAnd as the company crossed the bridgeWith...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

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