The Red Paintings - Mercy Seat lyrics

Published

0 79 0

The Red Paintings - Mercy Seat lyrics

I began to warm and chill To objects and their fields, A ragged cup, and a twisted mop The face of Jesus in my soup Those sinister dinner deals The meal trolley's wicked wheels And 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 I've got nothing left to lose And I'm not afraid to die. Interpret signs and catalogue A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog. The walls are bad. Black. Bottom kind. They are the sick breath at my hind They are the sick breath at my hind They are the sick breath at my hind They are the sick breath gathering, at my hind I hear stories from the chamber How Christ was born into a manger And like some ragged stranger Died upon the cross And 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 Like my good hand I 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 And his ark of his Testament is stowed A throne from which I'm told All history does unfold. Down here it's made of wood and wire And its 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 And I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in d**h awhile And anyway I never lied. My k**-hand is called evil Wears a wedding band that's good 'Tis a long-suffering shackle Collaring all that rebel blood. And the mercy seat is waiting And I think my head is burning And in a way I yearn To be done with all this weighing of 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. And the mercy seat is burning And I think my head is glowing And in a way I hope To be done with all this consequence of 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. And the mercy seat is glowing And I think my head is smoking And in a way I hope To be done with all these looks of disbelief. An eye for an eye And a tooth for a tooth And anyway there was no proof And i'm not afraid, But I'm afraid I told a lie.