Richard Shindell - Mercy Street lyrics

Peter Gabriel

For anne sexton

Looking down on empty streets
All she can see
Are the dreams all made solid
Are the dreams all made real

All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream in somebody's head
She pictures the broken glass
She pictures the steam she pictures a soul
With no leak at the seam

Let's take the boat out wait until darkness
Let's take the boat out
Wait until darkness comes

Nowhere in the corridors of
Pale green and grey nowhere in the suburbs
In the cold light of day

There in the midst of it so alive and alone
Words support like bone

Dreaming of mercy st wear your inside out
Dreaming of mercy
In your daddy ('s arms again
Dreaming of mercy st
'swear they moved that sign
Dreaming of mercy in your daddy's arms

Pulling out the papers from the
Drawers that slide smooth
Tugging at the darkness, word upon word
Confessing all the secret things in
The warm velvet box
To the priest he's the doctor
He can handle the shocks

Dreaming of the tenderness-the tremble
In the hips of kissing Mary's lips

Dreaming of mercy st wear your insides out
Dreaming of mercy in your daddy's arms again
Dreaming of mercy st
'swear they moved that sign
Looking for mercy in your daddy's arms

Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy
Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy

Anne, with her father is out in the boat
Riding the water riding the waves on the sea