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We used to sit and watch the kids belly flop divin in the river. |
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Share a bottle a scrumpy by the neck, lie in the sun and you'd make me laugh. |
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Take of early and head on home to get dolled up for the Casino. |
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we'd head out lookin all shiny and new, we were Teddyboys we had to be cool, |
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later that night we'd go down to Mario's for fish and chips and vinegar, |
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a smile for the camera man got me and you in a photograph. |
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But time goes on and on and nothin beautiful lasts forever, |
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I know what you've done and what you've been through |
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I dont understand why you do what you do, |
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I give you my hand its a hand you can hold on to |
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MERCY, MERCY, |
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We drifted apart and you grew strange you were more into whisky then women. |
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The first time you got lifted you loved it, you wrote your own epitaph. |
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here lies a wanted man could'nt take the rules when they hit him. |
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here lies a man with an attitude and a polaroid shot of a hand he could hold onto |
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MERCY, MERCY. |
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The older you get the harder it bites, when you fight you go kamikaze. |
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It hurts so bad to see you fall back from your tender ways. |
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Now all you've got is in a police bag beside a row of walkie-talkies on the mantlepiece, |
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I know what you've done and what you've been through, |
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but I dont understand why you do what you do what you do, |
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I give you my hand its a hand you can hold onto |
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MERCY, MERCY, MERCY, MERCY |
