《The Mercy Beat》歌词

[00:00:06] The Mercy Beat-the the

[00:00:40] There's a high wind blowin & the stars are shining bright

[00:00:46] Oh what a night this is gonna be--

[00:00:49] I think I'll let the world sleep without me

[00:00:53] I got one eye open one eye closed

[00:00:56] & my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes

[00:00:59] My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth

[00:01:03] --It's almost time to get out of this house

[00:01:12] I got one hand on the radio one hand on the wheel

[00:01:17] I got my right foot on the floorboard --

[00:01:22] & I'm preparing to kill or be killed

[00:01:25] There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright

[00:01:30] & the rain upon the tarmac

[00:01:34] --helps me sail through the traffic lights

[00:01:37] I'm heading down to the dock of the bay

[00:01:40] --to feel the power of the waves

[00:01:42] I'm gonna move up close to that wind

[00:01:47] & wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings

[00:02:03] Y'see I'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea

[00:02:06] & I know that water's sucked under better man than me

[00:02:08] I was just another western guy

[00:02:12] --with desires that couldn't be satisfied

[00:02:15] So one day I asked the angels for inspiration

[00:02:19] --but the devil bought me a drink

[00:02:25] & he's been buying them ever since

[00:02:27] He's had the liquor on my tongue

[00:02:44] --feel like the sea upon the sand

[00:02:47] He's had me signing confessions

[00:02:49] --from this shaking hand

[00:02:53] He's had me struggling to hang onto hope--

[00:02:56] Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat

[00:03:00] With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat

[00:03:03] & my dog eared bible lost--overboard

[00:03:05] Y'see he tricked me into temptation

[00:03:22] So I've tricked him into this confrontation

[00:03:24] I never said I was the man I appeared to be

[00:03:28] Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity

[00:03:32] Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity

[00:03:38] I'm gonna have little lucifer runnin' off to purgatory

[00:03:42] --with his tail between his legs

[00:03:44] I'm gonna teach him a lesson

[00:03:47] --he ain't ever gonna forget

[00:03:51] All the vultures & crows are fixin up some tombstones

[00:03:54] But they won't be chewing the meat off my bones

[00:03:57] There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright

[00:04:02] Me & him are gonna have a little knife fight

[00:04:06] --in the bowels of the big city skyline

[00:04:10] Oh this feelin' inside runs dark & deep

[00:04:13] --Tonight my hearts not thumping

[00:04:16] --A Mercy Beat

[00:04:17] I was just another western guy

[00:04:44] With desires that couldn't be--satisfied