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Lyrics for The Mercy Seat by JOHNNY CASH:
| | | Artist: | JOHNNY CASH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Mercy Seat | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 74 | | | | Lyrics: | It began when they come took me from my home
And put me on Death Row,
a crime for which I am
totally innocent, you know.
I began to warm and chill
To objects and their
fields,
A ragged cup, a twisted mop
The face of Jesus in my soup
Those sinister dinner
deals
The meal trolley's wicked wheels
A hooked bone rising from my food
All things
either good or ungood.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is
burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this weighing of the truth.
An eye
for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to
die.
I hear stories from the chamber
Christ was born into a manger
And like some
ragged stranger
He died upon the cross
Might I say, it seems so fitting in its way
He
was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that's what I'm told
My kill-hand's
tatooed
E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist
That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or
resist.
In Heaven His throne is made of gold
The ark of his Testament is stowed
A
throne from which I'm told
All history does unfold.
It's made of wood and wire
And my
body is on fire
And God is never far away.
Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is
shaved, my head is wired
And like a moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
I go
shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied.
And the
mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be
done with all this weighing of the truth.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And
anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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