Mercy I Cry City-The Incredible String Band

[ti:Mercy I Cry City] [ar:The Incredible String Band] [al:The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mercy I Cry City - The Incredible String Band [00:01.69]Since you got me here [00:03.29] [00:04.08]I see you're trying to steal my soul [00:06.52] [00:07.91]Your army's trying so very hard [00:10.11] [00:11.18]To find for me a goal [00:13.03] [00:14.18]But where's your quiet pastures [00:16.58] [00:17.11]Where there's time for me to be [00:19.61] [00:20.91]Nothing else but what I am [00:23.33] [00:23.94]That's what you seem scared to see [00:26.03] [00:27.26]You cover up your emptiness [00:30.38]With brick and noise and rush [00:32.55] [00:33.71]Oh I can see and touch you [00:36.34]But you don't owe reality much [00:38.97] [00:40.13]Have mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind [00:44.64]And sometimes I think you keep forgettin' [00:47.46]That you don't know me [00:49.64] [00:51.79]Mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind [00:55.65] [01:03.77]Oh send another carriage [01:06.70]Chugging down your chokey tube [01:09.25] [01:10.34]I hope it makes you happy [01:12.48] [01:13.02]'Cause it don't do my health much good [01:15.81] [01:16.89]You're slowly killing fumes [01:19.64]Now squeeze the lemon in my head [01:22.33] [01:23.49]Make me know just what it's like [01:26.58]For a sin drenched Christian to be dead [01:28.85] [01:29.82]Ah show to me your glitter [01:32.64]And your flashing neon light [01:35.13] [01:36.25]You see I think that only the sun knows [01:39.70]How to be quietly bright [01:41.55] [01:42.67]Have mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind [01:47.00]That sometimes I think you keep forgettin' [01:49.76]That you don't know me [01:52.14] [01:54.22]Mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind [01:58.15] [02:00.41]Oh city what you been doin' [02:02.66] [02:03.20]All these years what you been doin' [02:05.87] [02:06.38]Who would believe that what you been doin' [02:09.08]Would make such a ruin of you [02:11.33] [02:13.10]Hey city what you been doin' [02:15.59] [02:16.32]All these years what you been doin' [02:19.43]Who would believe that what you been doin' [02:22.16]Would make such a ruin of you [02:26.01]Tell me city