The Mercy Beat Lyrics - The The

There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright 

Oh, what a night, this is gonna be 

I think I'll let the world sleep without me 

I got one eye open, one eye closed 

And my thin body's trembling beneath the bed clothes 

My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth 

It's almost time to get out of this house 

I got one hand on the radio, one hand on the wheel 

I got my right foot on the floorboard, I'm preparing to kill or be killed 

There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shinin' bright 

And the rain upon the tarmac 

Helps me sail through the traffic lights 

I'm heading down to the dock of the bay 

To feel the power of the waves 

I'm gonna move up close to that wind 

Wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings 

You see I'm stuck between hell and the deep blue sea 

And I know that water's sucked under better man than me 

I was just another western guy 

With desires that couldn't be satisfied 

One day, I asked the angels for inspiration 

The devil bought me a drink 

He's been buying them ever since 

He's had the liquor on my tongue, feel like the sea upon the sand 

He's had me signing confessions from this shakin' hand 

He's had me struggling to hang onto hope 

Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat 

With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat 

My dog heared Bible lost overboard 

You see he tricked me into temptation 

So I've tricked him into this confrontation 

I never said I was the man I appeared to be 

Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity 

Or the soul on fire scribbling thoughts for posterity 

I'm gonna have little Lucifer runnin' off to purgatory 

With his tail between his legs 

I'm gonna teach him a lesson he ain't ever gonna forget 

All the vultures and crows are fixin' up some tombstones 

They won't be chewing the meat off my bones 

There's a high wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright 

Me and him are gonna have a little knife fight 

In the bowels of the big city skyline 

Oh, this feelin' inside runs dark and deep 

Tonight my hearts not thumping, a mercy beat 

Yeah, I was just another western guy 

With desires that couldn't be satisfied 

Oh, what a night this is gonna be 

The world will sleep without me 

What a night this is gonna be 

The world will sleep without me 

What a night, this is gonna be 

The world will sleep without me, yeah