Qualities Of Mercy-Penelope Houston

[ti:Qualities Of Mercy] [ar:Penelope Houston] [al:Eighteen Stories Down] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Qualities Of Mercy - Penelope Houston [00:08.59]Saw a leaf fall and I wanted to catch it [00:12.00]But I'm lying face down on a Daily Californian [00:16.66]Hair spread out in a halo of gold [00:20.74]Humming a tune it's the song of the charlatan [00:24.69]Hear the glass break and the trickle of whiskey [00:27.95] [00:28.57]Take me along I'm the life of the party [00:32.84]Day after day I hear my promises fade [00:36.05] [00:36.76]Giving lip service to the mercy of my friends [00:42.93] [00:43.77]And all the boys they tell me how they're going to love me [00:51.94]And all my girlfriends they say [00:54.54] [00:55.77]You're so lucky [00:58.44] [00:59.43]But what I'm really needing in this golden country [01:06.19] [01:07.46]Can you explain to me the qualities of mercy [01:15.83] [01:21.20]Old man sleeping with a beer in his hand [01:24.35] [01:24.95]Worked so hard but he's got no one to bury him [01:29.04]Built alot of fences in his fence building days [01:32.34] [01:33.04]Never built a bridge but he's crossing over anyway [01:36.94]Baby take a stick draw a circle around me [01:40.82]One to protect me from the times I want to fly away [01:45.01]Don't need a bridge 'cause I'm already sailing [01:48.26] [01:48.79]Sailing on the ferry cross the mercy of my friends [01:55.12] [01:56.01]And all the boys they tell me how they're going to love me [02:03.93]And all my girlfriends they say you're so lucky [02:10.84] [02:11.51]But what I'm really needing in this golden country [02:19.28]Can you explain to me the qualities of mercy [02:29.75] [02:33.00]It's good enough it's good enough to know [02:39.91] [02:40.53]The falling tears make a cradle in the snow [02:48.60]It's good enough it's good enough to hold [02:55.52] [02:56.10]That summer's long as the winters day's cold [03:07.72] [03:10.28]Saw a leaf fall and I wanted to catch it [03:13.65]But I'm lying face down on a Daily Californian [03:18.22]Hair spread out in a halo of gold [03:21.84]Giving lip service to the mercy of my friends [03:28.50] [03:29.07]And all the boys they tell me how they're going to love me [03:36.81]And all my girlfriends they say you're so lucky [03:43.86] [03:44.42]But what I'm really needing in this golden country [03:52.33]Can you explain to me the qualities of mercy