DOCTOR OF MERCY

1. Well I was walking these streets
And it was raining
And I didn’t know
What I was looking for
But I was looking for something
You can’t imagine
How much I needed
To find an unlocked door…

2. Or an open window
That would lead my blind mind
Out from darkness
Into the light
To the nearest exit
To a little stranger
With a dirty white smile
That looked ultra-bright…

3. that I would be lifted
from my useless concerns
from my mortal fears
of disappearing from sight
into the void
into the infinite wasteland
where a million billion years
they’re gonna pass right in the blink of your eye

4. but I stopped and I took
I took a cup of coffee
With a doctor of mercy
She sat right in front of me
And all my questions calmed down so slowly
Until the only thing that really mattered
Was if she coming back with me

5. And although she insisted
she insisted no
that didn’t matter
it didn’t matter to me
because I had lost my initiative
and my incorporation
I was so unincorporated and globalized
You could see

6. but the only thing
that I could remember
when we were covered with the lights
of dawn that made the roses bleed
and I remembered swearing by the shrine of Elvis
the blue moon of Kentucky would always shine on me

7. Here’s to the blood red days of the end of august
here’s to the years we swore we had nothing to lose
and in retrospective I guess I gotta be honest
or else I’m gonna suspect
you were my only real muse

8. But I still easily recall
the way she passed my table
ah the crinkle in her eyes
the way she walked
the way she tasted to me
it was just magic
the way she did her innuendos
it was so professional so polished
you could see

9. that she’d been around
so many drifters
so many pretenders
so many clowns
that I was no different
in fact I was usual
I was too normal
For her to stay around

10. Now I’m out of time
and I’m out of money
well I’m out of hope
I think I’m out of luck
And all those wonderful things that I found so interesting
To tell the truth right about now I don’t give a fuck