Mercy I Cry City Lyrics - Incredible String Band

Since you got me here 

I see you're trying to steal my soul 

Your army's trying so very hard 

To find for me a goal 

But where's your quiet pastures 

Where there's time for me to be 

Nothing else but what I am 

That's what you seem scared to see 

You cover up your emptiness 

With brick and noise and rush 

Oh, I can see and touch you 

But you don't owe reality much 

Have mercy I cry city, you're all upon my mind 

And sometimes I think you keep forgettin' 

That you don't know me 

Mercy I cry city, you're all upon my mind 

Oh, send another carriage 

Chugging down your chokey tube 

I hope it makes you happy 

'Cause it don't do my health much good 

You're slowly killing fumes 

Now squeeze the lemon in my head 

Make me know just what it's like 

For a sin drenched Christian to be dead 

Ah, show to me your glitter 

And your flashing neon light 

You see, I think that only the sun knows 

How to be quietly bright 

Have mercy I cry city, you're all upon my mind 

That sometimes I think you keep forgettin' 

That you don't know me 

Mercy I cry city, you're all upon my mind 

Oh city, what you been doin'? 

All these years, what you been doin'? 

Who would believe that what you been doin' 

Would make such a ruin of you? 

Hey city, what you been doin'? 

All these years, what you been doin'? 

Who would believe that what you been doin' 

Would make such a ruin of you? 

Tell me city