[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:07.00]Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & the bad seeds [00:28.67]I began to warm and chill [00:31.35]To objects and their fields [00:34.22]A ragged cup  a twisted mop [00:36.92]The face of Jesus in my soup [00:39.59]Those sinister dinner deals [00:42.55]The meal trolley's wicked wheels [00:45.47]A hooked bone rising from my food [00:48.61]All things either good or ungood [00:50.69]And the mercy seat is waiting [00:53.66]And I think my head is burning [00:56.69]And in a way I'm yearning [00:58.83]To be done with all this measuring of proof [01:02.78]An eye for an eye [01:04.36]A tooth for a tooth [01:05.61]And anyway I told the truth [01:08.61]And I'm not afraid to die [01:16.90]Interpret signs and catalogue [01:19.71]A blackened tooth  a scarlet fog [01:22.70]The walls are bad  Black  Bottom kind [01:25.56]They are the sick breath at my hind [01:28.65]They are the sick breath at my hind [01:31.49]They are the sick breath at my hind [01:34.37]They are the sick breath gathering at my hind [01:40.11]I hear stories from the chamber [01:42.61]How Christ was born into a manger [01:45.76]And like some ragged stranger [01:47.65]Died upon the cross [01:49.80]And might I say it seems so fitting in it's way [01:53.89]He was a carpenter by trade [01:56.88]Or at least that's what I'm told [02:04.80]Like my kill-hand [02:05.85]Tatooed E V I L  like across it's brother's fist [02:10.33]That filthy five [02:11.92]They did nothing to challenge or resist [02:15.73]In Heaven His throne is made of gold [02:18.16]The ark of his Testament is stowed [02:21.15]A throne from which I'm told [02:22.51]All history does unfold [02:24.79]Down here it's made of wood and wire [02:27.94]And my body is on fire [02:31.03]And God is never far away [02:33.93]Into the mercy seat I climb [02:36.57]My head is shaved  my head is wired [02:39.14]And like the moth that tries [02:41.08]To enter the bright eye [02:43.13]So I go shuffling out of life [02:45.93]Just to hide in death awhile [02:49.47]And anyway I never lied [02:52.19]My kill-hand is called E V I L [02:54.56]Wears a wedding band that's G O O D [02:57.15]`Tis a long-suffering shackle [03:00.06]Collaring all that rebel blood [03:02.50]And the mercy seat is waiting [03:05.11]And I think my head is burning [03:07.89]And in a way I'm yearning [03:09.78]To be done with all this weighing up of the truth [03:13.35]An eye for an eye [03:14.63]And a tooth for a tooth [03:15.86]And anyway I told the truth [03:18.46]And I'm not afraid to die [03:21.11]And the mercy seat is waiting [03:23.33]And I think my head is glowing [03:26.07]And in a way I'm hoping [03:27.86]To be done with all this twisted of that the truth  [03:31.80]An eye for an eye [03:32.91]And a tooth for a tooth [03:34.04]And anyway I told the truth [03:36.75]And I'm not afraid to die [03:39.28]And the mercy seat is glowing [03:41.43]And I think my head is smoking [03:44.19]And in a way I'm hoping [03:46.06]To be done with all this looks of disbelief [03:49.57]An eye for an eye [03:51.08]And a tooth for a tooth [03:52.34]And anyway there was no proof [03:54.76]And I'm not afraid to die [03:57.26]And the mercy seat is smoking [03:59.51]And I think my head is melting [04:02.26]And in a way I'm helping [04:04.13]To be done with all this twisted of the truth [04:07.74]A lie for a lie [04:09.17]And a truth for a truth [04:10.40]And anyway I told the truth [04:13.17]But I'm afraid I told a lie