Borrowers - Mercy Bound lyrics

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Late last night I awoke in a dream<br />

To the sound of a voice that was almost a scream<br />

>From out of the city and out of the street<br />

Out where the wind hits the cold concrete<br />

It's cold outside<br />

Darkness your enemy<br />

No place to hide<br />

The voice said this to me<br />

In your doorways I have shivered<br />

In your alleys I have gone to ground<br />

But I will be delivered<br />

Someday I will be mercy bound<br />

I dreamed again it was West LA<br />

On a crowded street on a hot summer day<br />

She was alone<br />

Three months late and beginning to show<br />

In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow<br />

She had no one to call and no way home<br />

And in my mind I knew I'd seen myself<br />

But in our blindness it always seems like someone else<br />

There I was a rag a bone<br />

A remnant in your lost and found<br />

I was for once truly alone<br />

Longing to be mercy bound<br />

And I knew that I would wander<br />

As a child in the forest till they found me<br />

And I called out to them but could not penetrate<br />

The silence all around me<br />

And when I wake I know you'll comfort me<br />

And I won't sleep again for an eternity<br />

But others lie awake at night<br />

In desperation more profound<br />

And the coming of the morning light<br />

Will not see them mercy bound<br />

And some will never dream again<br />

>From sleeping on the ground<br />

Longing to belong<br />

And dying to be mercy bound<br />

Oh please don't stop your dreaming<br />

Someday we'll all be mercy bound