The Mercy Seat (Live from KCRW)-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:The Mercy Seat(live版)] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Push the Sky Away (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.71]The Mercy Seat (上帝的御座) (Live from KCRW) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (尼克·凯夫和坏种乐队) [00:01.37] [00:17.77]I began to warm and chill [00:20.48] [00:21.92]To objects and their fields [00:24.24] [00:25.53]A ragged cup a twisted mop [00:28.01] [00:29.47]The face of Jesus in my soup [00:32.33] [00:33.54]Those sinister dinner meals [00:36.40] [00:37.98]The meal trolley's wicked wheels [00:40.85] [00:41.99]A hooked bone rising from my food [00:45.34] [00:45.92]All things either good or ungood [00:48.73] [00:49.52]And the mercy seat is waiting [00:52.88] [00:53.41]And I think my head is burning [00:56.73] [00:57.25]And in a way I'm yearning [00:59.84]To be done with all this measuring of truth [01:04.32] [01:05.14]An eye for an eye [01:07.18]A tooth for a tooth [01:08.95]And anyway I told the truth [01:12.53] [01:13.48]And I'm not afraid to die [01:16.52] [01:32.80]Interpret signs and catalogue [01:36.15] [01:36.96]A blackened tooth a scarlet fog [01:39.85] [01:40.81]The walls are bad Black Bottom kind [01:44.03] [01:44.76]They are sick breath at my hind [01:48.58]I hear stories from the chamber [01:52.37]How Christ was born into a manger [01:55.69]And like some ragged stranger [01:59.26]Died upon the cross [02:01.16] [02:01.81]And might I say it seems so fitting in it's way [02:07.39]He was a carpenter by trade [02:12.14]Or at least that's what I'm told [02:16.13] [02:22.86]Like my good hand I [02:25.18]Tatooed E V I L across it's brother's fist [02:29.35] [02:30.58]That filthy five They did nothing to challenge or resist [02:37.03] [02:38.47]In Heaven His throne is made of gold [02:42.24]The ark of his Testament is stowed [02:45.91]A throne from which I'm told [02:48.90]All history does unfold [02:51.53]Down here it's made of wood and wire [02:55.42]And my body is on fire [03:00.15] [03:01.30]And God is never far away [03:04.59] [03:05.16]My kill-hand is called E V I L [03:08.60] [03:09.12]Wears a wedding band that's G O O D [03:11.75] [03:12.73]`Tis a long-suffering shackle [03:15.94] [03:16.89]Collaring all that rebel blood [03:20.46]And the mercy seat is waiting [03:24.25]And I think my head is burning [03:28.09]And in a way I'm yearning [03:30.64]To be done with all this measuring of truth [03:34.97] [03:35.88]An eye for an eye [03:37.68]And a tooth for a tooth [03:39.52]And anyway I told the truth [03:43.48]And I'm not afraid to die [03:46.84]And the mercy seat is burning [03:50.38]And I think my head is glowing [03:54.20]And in a way I'm hoping [03:56.71]To be done with all this weighing up of truth [04:01.16] [04:01.78]An eye for an eye [04:03.51]And a tooth for a tooth [04:05.41]And I've got nothing left to lose [04:09.03]And I'm not afraid to die [04:12.49]And the mercy seat is smoking [04:16.17]And I think my head is boiling [04:19.82]And in a way I'm spoiling [04:22.65]All the fun with all this truth and consequence [04:26.69] [04:27.62]An eye for an eye [04:29.35]And a truth for a truth [04:31.13] [04:31.80]And anyway I told the truth [04:34.91] [04:35.78]And I'm not afraid to die