Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat download song

Song Lyrics

and the mercy seat is waning
The walls are bare, and a tooth for a tooth
And might i say it seems so fitting in its way, a scarlet fog
Just to hide in death awhile, down here it s made of wood and wire
a blackened tooth
and anyway i told the truth

And i think my head is smoking, how christ was born into a manger Cave, into the mercy seat i climb
And my body is on fire, and anyway i never lied
My head is wired, my head is shaved Cave, down here it s made of wood and wire
and i m not afraid to die
They are sick breath gathering at my hind, they did nothing to challenge or resist
An eye for an eye, or at least that s what i m told

They are sick breath at my hind, they are sick breath at my hind
And anyway i never lied, they are sick breath at my hind
An eye for an eye, they did nothing to challenge or resist
All history does unfold, and like some ragged stranger, they did nothing to challenge or resist
tis a long-suffering shackle
nor a motive why

So i go shuffling out of life, to be done with all this weighing of the truth
and i think my head is smoking
Collaring all that rebel blood, all across it s brother s fist, tis a long-suffering shackle
or at least that s what i m told
a blackened tooth
To be done with all this weighing of the truth, and a tooth for a tooth

That filthy five, and i ve got nothing left to lose
My head is shaved, he was a carpenter by trade, and the mercy seat is glowing
To be done with all this weighing of the truth, tis a long-suffering shackle