The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Verse 3]

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

The 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 my body is on fire

And God is never far away

[Verse 4]

Into the mercy seat I climb

My head is shaved, my head is wired

And like the moth that tries

To enter the bright eye

So I go shuffling out of life

Just to hide in death awhile

And anyway I never lied

[Verse 5]

My kill-hand is called E.V.I.L

Wears a wedding band that's G.O.O.D

`Tis a long-suffering shackle

Collaring all that rebel blood

[Chorus]

And the mercy seat is-a waiting

And I think my head is-a burning

In a way I'm yearning

To be done with all this measuring 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-a burning

And I think my head is-a glowing

And in a way I'm hoping

To be done with all this weighing up 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-a glowing

And I think my head is smoking

And in a way I'm hoping

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 prrof

Nor a motive why

And the mercy seat is-a melting

And I think my blood is-a boiling

And in a way I'm spoiling

All the fun 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