The Mercy Beat-THE THE

[ti:The Mercy Beat] [ar:The The] [al:Infected] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mercy Beat - THE THE [00:40.82]There's a high wind blowin & the stars are shining bright [00:46.12]Oh what a night this is gonna be-- [00:49.70]I think I'll let the world sleep without me [00:53.08]I got one eye open one eye closed [00:56.53]& my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes [00:59.85]My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth [01:03.31]--It's almost time to get out of this house [01:12.53]I got one hand on the radio one hand on the wheel [01:17.41]I got my right foot on the floorboard -- [01:22.56]& I'm preparing to kill or be killed [01:25.26]There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright [01:30.91]& the rain upon the tarmac [01:34.73]--helps me sail through the traffic lights [01:37.55]I'm heading down to the dock of the bay [01:40.76]--to feel the power of the waves [01:42.77]I'm gonna move up close to that wind [01:47.44]& wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings [01:52.97] [02:03.95]Y'see I'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea [02:06.20]& I know that water's sucked under better man than me [02:08.82]I was just another western guy [02:12.82]--with desires that couldn't be satisfied [02:14.27] [02:15.99]So one day I asked the angels for inspiration [02:19.04]--but the devil bought me a drink [02:25.25]& he's been buying them ever since [02:27.70]He's had the liquor on my tongue [02:44.12]--feel like the sea upon the sand [02:47.47]He's had me signing confessions [02:49.47]--from this shaking hand [02:53.73]He's had me struggling to hang onto hope-- [02:56.53]Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat [03:00.34]With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat [03:03.64]& my dog eared bible lost--overboard [03:05.27]Y'see he tricked me into temptation [03:22.44]So I've tricked him into this confrontation [03:24.31]I never said I was the man I appeared to be [03:28.18]Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity [03:32.24]Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity [03:38.25]I'm gonna have little lucifer runnin' off to purgatory [03:42.15]--with his tail between his legs [03:44.45]I'm gonna teach him a lesson [03:47.72]--he ain't ever gonna forget [03:51.11]All the vultures & crows are fixin up some tombstones [03:54.75]But they won't be chewing the meat off my bones [03:57.87]There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright [04:02.73]Me & him are gonna have a little knife fight [04:06.80]--in the bowels of the big city skyline [04:10.18]Oh this feelin' inside runs dark & deep [04:13.86]--Tonight my hearts not thumping [04:16.29]--A Mercy Beat [04:17.61]I was just another western guy [04:44.14]With desires that couldn't be--satisfied