The - The Mercy Beat lyrics

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There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright<br />

Oh what a night, this is gonna be, I think I'll let the world sleep without me<br />

I got one eye open, one eye closed and my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes<br />

My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth, it's almost time to get out of this house<br />

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I got one hand on the radio, one hand on the wheel<br />

I got my right foot on the floorboard and I'm preparing to kill or be killed<br />

There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright<br />

And the rain upon the tarmac helps me sail through the traffic lights<br />

I'm heading down to the dock of the bay to feel the power of the waves<br />

I'm gonna move up close to that wind and wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings<br />

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Ye see I'm stuck between hell and the deep blue sea<br />

And I know that water's sucked under better man than me<br />

I was just another western guy with desires that couldn't be satisfied<br />

One day, I asked the angels for inspiration<br />

But the devil bought me a drink and he's been buying them ever since<br />

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He's had the liquor on my tongue, feel like the sea upon the sand<br />

He's had me signing confessions from this shaking hand<br />

He's had me struggling to hang onto hope like a drunken sailor in a tugboat<br />

With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat and my dog eared bible lost overboard<br />

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Ye see he tricked me into temptation so I've tricked him into this confrontation<br />

I never said I was the man I appeared to be<br />

Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity<br />

Or the soul on fire scribbling thoughts for posterity<br />

I'm gonna have little Lucifer, runnin' off to purgatory with his tail between his legs<br />

I'm gonna teach him a lesson he ain't ever gonna forget<br />

All the vultures and crows are fixin' up some tombstones<br />

But they won't be chewing the meat off my bones<br />

There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright<br />

Me and him are gonna have a little knife fight in the bowels of the big city skyline<br />

Oh this feelin' inside runs dark and deep, tonight my hearts not thumping a mercy beat<br />

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I was just another western guy with desires that can't be satisfied<br />

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What a night, this is gonna be, the world can sleep without me<br />

What a night, this is gonna be, the world can sleep without me<br />

What a night, this is gonna be, the world can sleep without me<br />

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