Album: Wild God (2024)
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  • I woke up this morning with the blues all around my head
    I woke up this morning with the blues all around my head
    I felt like someone in my family was dead

    I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees
    I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees
    Call out all around me, said, "Have mercy on me, please
    Have mercy on me, please"

    Then over by the window, the voice came low and hollow
    Over by the window a voice came low and hollow
    Spoke into my pain, into my yearning sorrow
    Spoke into my pain

    Who was it? I cried
    What wild ghost has come in agitation?
    Who is it? I cried
    What wild ghost has come in agitation?
    It's half past midnight
    Oh, why you disturb me so late?

    Then I saw a movement
    Then I saw a movement around
    Then I saw a movement around my narrow bed
    I saw a movement around my narrow bed
    Oh, a ghost in giant sneakers, laughing stars around his head
    Have mercy on me

    Sat on a narrow bed, this flaming boy
    Who sat on a narrow bed, this flaming boy
    Said, "We've all had too much sorrow
    Now is the time for joy"

    And all across the world they shout bad words
    They shout angry words
    All across the world they shout out their angry words
    About the end of love

    Yet the stars stand above the earth
    Bright, triumphant metaphors of love
    Bright, triumphant metaphors of love
    Blind us all who care to stand and look beyond it
    Care to stand and look beyond, above

    And I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees
    I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees
    I called all around me, said, "Have mercy on me, please"
    Have mercy on me, please
    Have mercy on me, please
    God have mercy on me, please

    For joy, for joy, for joy, for joy
    For joy, for joy, joy, joy
    For joy, for joy, for joy
    For joy, for joy, for joy
    Oh, for joy

    Oh, have mercy on me, please
    Oh, joy
    Oh, joy
    Oh, joy Writer/s: Nicholas Cave, Warren Ellis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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