The Mercy Seat Lyrics

Sorrow's child sits by the riverSorrow's child hears not the waterSorrow's child sits by the riverSorrow's child hears not the waterAnd just when you feel as thoughYou've got stren...Read Full Lyrics

There's a devil waiting outside your door(How much longer?)There's a devil waiting outside your doorAnd he's bucking and braying and pawing at the floorAnd he's howling with pain a...Read Full Lyrics

I set out on MondayThe night was cold and vastMy brother sleptThough I left quite quietlyMy father raged and ragedMy mother weptMy life was like a riverAll sucked into the groundAn...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

And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow's partiesA hand-me-down dress from who knows whereTo all tomorrow's partiesAnd where will she go and what shall she doWhen ...Read Full Lyrics

Alice wakesIt is morningShe is yawningAs she walks about the roomHer hair rolls down her breastShe is naked and it is JuneStanding at the windowI wonder if she knows that I can see...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

When you're sad and when you're lonelyAnd you haven't got a friendJust remember that death is not the endAnd all that you held sacredFalls down and does not mendJust remember that ...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

Come sail your ships around meAnd burn your bridges downWe make a little history babyEvery time you come aroundCome loose your dogs upon meAnd let your hair hang downYou are a litt...Read Full Lyrics