The Incredible String Band - Mercy I Cry City lyrics
[The Incredible String Band - Mercy I Cry City lyrics]
Since you got me here I see
You're trying to steal my soul
Your army's trying so very hard to
Find for me a goal
But where's your quiet pastures where there's
Time for me to be?
Nothing else but what I am
That's what you seem scared to see
You cover up your emptiness with
Brick and noise and rush
Oh I can see and touch you
But you don't owe reality much
Have mercy, I cry
City you're all upon my mind
Sometimes I think you keep forgetting
That you don't know me
Mercy, I cry, city you're all upon my mind
Send another carriage chugging down
Your chokey tube
I hope it makes you happy 'cause it
Don't do my health much good
Your slowly killing fumes now squeeze
The lemon in my head
Make me know just what it's like for
A sin-drenched Christian to be dead
Ah, show me your glitter and
Your flashing neon light you see
I think that only the sun knows
How to be quietly bright
Have mercy, I cry
City you're all upon my mind
Sometimes I think you keep forgetting
That you don't know me
Mercy, I cry, city you're all upon my mind
Hey city, what you been doing?
All these years what you been doing?
Who would believe that what you been doing
Would make such a ruin of you?
Hey city, what you been doing?
All these years what you been doing?
Who would believe that what you been doing
Would make such a ruin of you? Tell me city
You're trying to steal my soul
Your army's trying so very hard to
Find for me a goal
But where's your quiet pastures where there's
Time for me to be?
Nothing else but what I am
That's what you seem scared to see
You cover up your emptiness with
Brick and noise and rush
Oh I can see and touch you
But you don't owe reality much
Have mercy, I cry
City you're all upon my mind
Sometimes I think you keep forgetting
That you don't know me
Mercy, I cry, city you're all upon my mind
Send another carriage chugging down
Your chokey tube
I hope it makes you happy 'cause it
Don't do my health much good
Your slowly killing fumes now squeeze
The lemon in my head
Make me know just what it's like for
A sin-drenched Christian to be dead
Ah, show me your glitter and
Your flashing neon light you see
I think that only the sun knows
How to be quietly bright
Have mercy, I cry
City you're all upon my mind
Sometimes I think you keep forgetting
That you don't know me
Mercy, I cry, city you're all upon my mind
Hey city, what you been doing?
All these years what you been doing?
Who would believe that what you been doing
Would make such a ruin of you?
Hey city, what you been doing?
All these years what you been doing?
Who would believe that what you been doing
Would make such a ruin of you? Tell me city