Lenny Bruce
Have mercy
On this land
Mercy
This is not what we planned
There's a hollow place
Where the heart used to be
And the absence left everyone
Broken in misery
What you want from me?
There ain't no heart that could take this bitter stuff
Oh mercy
Mercy
Ain't we had enough?
The angels
Left the city
Ain't there just one
Who can spare a little sympathy?
The cops turned up again
In San Francisco last night night
The jokes are the same
But something don't feel right
And that old familiar light
Shines down but there's nothing here to see
Oh mercy
Mercy
Ain't you got some for me?
I'm fallen
Like a bird with no wing
Fallen silent
A phonograph with no spring
They found him passed out
On the bathroom floor
And the radio said Lenny Bruce ain't
Coming back no more
And now the future's such a bore
And there's one thing that would set us all free
Oh mercy
Mercy
Have mercy
Mercy on me
Mercy
Mercy
On this land
Mercy
This is not what we planned
There's a hollow place
Where the heart used to be
And the absence left everyone
Broken in misery
What you want from me?
There ain't no heart that could take this bitter stuff
Oh mercy
Mercy
Ain't we had enough?
The angels
Left the city
Ain't there just one
Who can spare a little sympathy?
The cops turned up again
In San Francisco last night night
The jokes are the same
But something don't feel right
And that old familiar light
Shines down but there's nothing here to see
Oh mercy
Mercy
Ain't you got some for me?
I'm fallen
Like a bird with no wing
Fallen silent
A phonograph with no spring
They found him passed out
On the bathroom floor
And the radio said Lenny Bruce ain't
Coming back no more
And now the future's such a bore
And there's one thing that would set us all free
Oh mercy
Mercy
Have mercy
Mercy on me
Mercy
Mercy
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Writer(s): Curtis Eller
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