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 is dead
I jumped up liike a rabbit and fell down to my knees
I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees

Called iout all around me and said
Have mercy on me please
Have mercy on me please

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 is coming agitation
Who is it I cry
What wild ghost is coming agitation

It is half past midnight
Ohh why you disturb me so late
Then I saw a movement
Then I saw a movement around
Then I saw a movement around my narrrow bed
I saw a movement around my narrow bed

Or ghost and 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 have all had too much sorrow now
Is the time for joy

Ohh

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 metaphor of love
Brigh, triumphant metaphors of love
Blind us all who care and stand and look beyond
And care and stand and look beyond the love

I jumped uo 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 and said
Have mercy on me please
Have mercy on me please

Ohh
Have mercy on me please
Oh
Have mercy on me please
For joy for joy for joy
For joy for joy for joy
All for joy
Have mercy on me please
Joy

  1. Into my Arms
  2. Slowly Goes The Night
  3. 'I Need You'
  4. Joy
  5. And no more shall we part
  6. Sweetheart come
  7. Skeleton Tree
  8. Conversion
  9. Straight To You
  10. Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
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