Mercy Street

1. Looking down on empty streets, all she can see

Are the dreams all made solid, are the dreams made real

All of the buildings, all of the cars

Were once just a dream in somebody's head

She pictures the broken glass, pictures the steam

She pictures a soul with no leak at the seam

*: Let's take the boat out (wait until darkness)

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Let's take the boat out (wait until darkness comes)

2. Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey

Nowhere in the suburbs, in the cold light of day

There in the midst of it so alive and alone

Words support like bone

R: Dreaming of Mercy Street, wear your inside out

Dreaming of mercy in your daddy's arms again

Dreaming of Mercy Street, swear they moved that sign

Dreaming of mercy in your daddy's arms

3. Pulling out the papers from the drawers that slide smooth

Tugging at the darkness, word upon word

Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box

To the priest-he's the doctor, he can handle the shocks

Dreaming of the tenderness-the tremble in the hips

Of kissing Mary's lips

R: Dreaming of Mercy Street...

Mercy, mercy looking for mercy

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Mercy, looking for mercy

Looking for mercy

Looking for mercy...

Anne with her father is out in the boat

Riding the water,

Riding the waves

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On the sea