[ti:The Mercy Seat(live版)]
[ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds]
[al:Push the Sky Away (Deluxe Edition)]
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[00:00.00]The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
[00:17.77]I began to warm and chill
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[00:21.92]To objects and their fields 
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[00:25.53]A ragged cup  a twisted mop
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[00:29.47]The face of Jesus in my soup
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[00:33.54]Those sinister dinner meals
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[00:37.98]The meal trolley's wicked wheels
[00:40.85]
[00:41.99]A hooked bone rising from my food
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[00:45.92]All things either good or ungood 
[00:48.73]
[00:49.52]And the mercy seat is waiting
[00:52.88]
[00:53.41]And I think my head is burning
[00:56.73]
[00:57.25]And in a way I'm yearning
[00:59.84]To be done with all this measuring of truth 
[01:04.32]
[01:05.14]An eye for an eye
[01:07.18]A tooth for a tooth
[01:08.95]And anyway I told the truth
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[01:13.48]And I'm not afraid to die 
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[01:32.80]Interpret signs and catalogue
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[01:36.96]A blackened tooth  a scarlet fog 
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[01:40.81]The walls are bad  Black  Bottom kind 
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[01:44.76]They are sick breath at my hind
[01:48.58]I hear stories from the chamber
[01:52.37]How Christ was born into a manger
[01:55.69]And like some ragged stranger
[01:59.26]Died upon the cross
[02:01.16]
[02:01.81]And might I say it seems so fitting in it's way
[02:07.39]He was a carpenter by trade
[02:12.14]Or at least that's what I'm told
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[02:22.86]Like my good hand I
[02:25.18]Tatooed E V I L  across it's brother's fist
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[02:30.58]That filthy five  They did nothing to challenge or resist 
[02:37.03]
[02:38.47]In Heaven His throne is made of gold
[02:42.24]The ark of his Testament is stowed
[02:45.91]A throne from which I'm told
[02:48.90]All history does unfold 
[02:51.53]Down here it's made of wood and wire
[02:55.42]And my body is on fire
[03:00.15]
[03:01.30]And God is never far away 
[03:04.59]
[03:05.16]My kill-hand is called E V I L 
[03:08.60]
[03:09.12]Wears a wedding band that's G O O D 
[03:11.75]
[03:12.73]`Tis a long-suffering shackle
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[03:16.89]Collaring all that rebel blood 
[03:20.46]And the mercy seat is waiting
[03:24.25]And I think my head is burning
[03:28.09]And in a way I'm yearning
[03:30.64]To be done with all this measuring of truth 
[03:34.97]
[03:35.88]An eye for an eye
[03:37.68]And a tooth for a tooth
[03:39.52]And anyway I told the truth
[03:43.48]And I'm not afraid to die 
[03:46.84]And the mercy seat is burning
[03:50.38]And I think my head is glowing
[03:54.20]And in a way I'm hoping
[03:56.71]To be done with all this weighing up of truth 
[04:01.16]
[04:01.78]An eye for an eye
[04:03.51]And a tooth for a tooth
[04:05.41]And I've got nothing left to lose
[04:09.03]And I'm not afraid to die 
[04:12.49]And the mercy seat is  smoking
[04:16.17]And I think my head is  boiling
[04:19.82]And in a way I'm spoiling
[04:22.65]All the fun with all this truth and consequence 
[04:26.69]
[04:27.62]An eye for an eye
[04:29.35]And a truth for a truth
[04:31.13]
[04:31.80]And anyway I told the truth
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[04:35.78]And I'm not afraid to die