Mercy

by Wire

From the album: Chairs Missing

Track 9 of 15 on Chairs Missing (1978).

Duration: 05:46

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Lyrics for Mercy

Crooks lay in a weighted state waiting for the dead assassin while the rust pure powder puffs, a shimmering opaque red. Papers spread, no-one driving, we hurled direct ahead, the windows dark-green tinted, the hearse a taxi instead. Snow storms forecast imminently in areas Dogger, Viking, Moray, Forth, and Orkney. Keeping cover in denuded scrub, the school destroyed raised the club, panic spreading with threat of fire. Crowding beneath a layer of foam, refugees intertwined, alone. Within the institution walls, in pastel blue, clinical white, slashed red lipsticked walls, mercy nurse tonight. Seems like dark grey stockings in the raking torchlight with 4 AM stubble, a midnight transvestite.

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  2. French Film Blurred
  3. Another the Letter
  4. Men 2nd
  5. Marooned
  6. Sand in My Joints
  7. Being Sucked in Again
  8. Heartbeat
  9. Mercy
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  11. I Am the Fly
  12. I Feel Mysterious Today
  13. From The Nursery
  14. Used To
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