Town of Mercy Lyrics - Aoife O’Donovan
I walked away from Mercy out to the deepest woods
Entered by the river at the only place I could fed a fire and watched the smoke
Like something climbing free
Leaning like a ladder
And calling after me
That I could rise from what may shine
Keep your place surrender mine as if your name as old as time waited like a song upon the tongue
Of all the mercy begging to be sung
I’ve made my peace with Mercy
As quick as it may be to betray my confidence in how I choose to see
That what had come together now are pieces in my hand fraying at the knees that buckled long before we stand
So I might rise from what may shine
Keep your place surrender mine as if your name as old as time
Waited like a song upon the tongue
Of all the mercy begging to be sung
The snow flies its confetti like the end of a parade
Leaves a vacant silence
Knee-deep in the charade that here’s the end of hunger
This feasting of the soul when all the while it’s waited
For the light to swallow whole…
So I might rise…
