The Mercy Seat

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 It began when they came and took me from my home ...

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 VERSE:

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 I began to warm and chill to objects and their fields

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 a ragged cup a twisted mop. the face of Jesus in my soup

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 Those sinister dinner meals The meal trolly's wicked wheels

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 A hooked bone rising from my food. All things either good or ungood



 CHORUS:

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 And the mercy seat is waiting and I think my head is burning

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 and in a way I'm yearning to be done with all this measuring of truth

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 an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth

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 and anyway i told the truth and I'm not afraid to die