Christy Moore - Mercy lyrics

We used to sit and watch the kids
Belly flop divin in the river
Share a bottle a scrumpy by the neck
Lie in the sun and you'd make me laugh
Take of early and head on home to
Get dolled up for the Casino
We'd head out lookin all shiny and new
We were Teddyboys we had to be cool
Later that night we'd go down to Mario's
For fish and chips and vinegar
A smile for the camera man got
Me and you in a photograph
But time goes on and on
And nothin beautiful lasts forever
I know what you've done and
What you've been through
I don't understand why you do what you do
I give you my hand it's a
Hand you can hold on to mERCY, MERCY

We drifted apart and you grew strange you
Were more into whisky then women
The first time you got lifted you loved it
You wrote your own epitaph
Here lies a wanted man could'nt take
The rules when they hit him
Here lies a man with an
Attitude and a polaroid
Shot of a hand he could hold onto
MERCY, MERCY

The older you get the harder it bites
When you fight you go kamikaze
It hurts so bad to see you
Fall back from your tender ways
Now all you've got is in a police bag beside
A row of walkie talkies on the mantlepiece
I know what you've done and
What you've been through
But, I don't understand why you do
What you do what you do
I give you my hand it's a
Hand you can hold onto
Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy