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Mary Gauthier Mercy Now

Happy anniversary, baby It's been a year now since you moved away And even though I asked you to go I miss you every day I miss you in the evenings Alone

It's a cheap hotel, the heat pipes hiss The bathroom's down the hall and it smells like piss It's another night in another town And I'm another blues

There's a big storm a coming, of this I've no doubt That storm's gonna blow your little world inside out When the wild winds let up, when the violence

Packing vagabond visions and a dream drenched hunger for a home Swaddled in road dirt, blood stained blankets and poems On a stormy suitcase Sunday, I

the saints go marching in A second line forms and they wave white hankies in the wind Satchmo takes a solo, and he flashes his million dollar smile Marie

hell and hallowed ground Every single one of us could use some mercy now Every single one of us could use some mercy now Every single one of us could use some mercy now

It's a cheap hotel, the heat pipes hiss The bathroom's down the hall, and it smells like piss It's another night in another town And I'm another blues

Happy Anniversary, baby It's been a year now since you moved away Even though I asked you to go I miss you every day I miss you in the evenings Alone

There's a big storm a coming Of this I've no doubt That storm's gonna blow your little world inside out When the wild winds let up When the violence