《The Mercy Beat》歌词

歌曲： The Mercy Beat

所属专辑：Infected

歌手： The The

时长： 07:23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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