Mercy Lyrics - Counting Crows

(Kurt Stevenson, Patrick Winningham, & Chris Boesel) 

Originally recorded for the Georgia soundtrack 

I got a feeling 

of unrighteousness 

bitter cold 

hollow bitterness 

down the road 

I walk with loneliness 

mercy will follow me I'm told 

Beneath this skin 

there lies a heart of stone 

It's growing old 

so very far, from home 

but a heart of gold 

I may someday own? 

and mercy will follow me, I'm told 

mercy will you follow me 

mercy will you follow me 

to the final breath at last I take 

mercy will you follow me 

mercy will you follow me 

Till the chain of this old world I finally break. 

My sister sang 

songs so sweet and sad 

bout a man 

whos love I never had 

there's a train 

bound for Gilead 

mercy will follow me I'm told 

mercy will you follow me 

mercy will you follow me 

till my final breath at last I take 

mercy will you follow me 

mercy will you follow me 

Till the chains of this old world I finally break 

Till the chains of this old world I finally break 

Till the chains of this old world I finally break