Mercy Creek® Lyrics
from "name of the record is mercy creek", "Dirty Water", Storm Has Blown Over", and "Bonfire of Vanities"
"the name of the record is mercy creek" 1999
Never Forget (track 1)
Beyond the road of separation lies the tears for all the times
We formed as one received the knowledge of our teachers minds
From day to day our friendship grew strong and after a while we knew we belonged
Some memories will fade but most remain within our minds until we meet
At a reunion or if we're crossing paths along the street
Roads must diverge to make their way creating paths rejoined someday
Never forget these things you learned put behind you all that binds you
Have no regrets when you return I recommend you tell your friends to
Keep in touch throughout the years while holding back the longing tears
You wish them well along the way
Spreading our wings we make indentions in this world in which we've grown
We're silencing this generation's apathetic drone. Weeding the ground on which we stand
We're making changes in this land
Almost (track 2)
I am almost drowning in the waking crest of your unending sea
I am not who I'm suppose to or who I ever want to be
Trapped in by judgement I only see the tragic expectations
In this world and in this lie in which I stride
Everything you ever wanted all that you desire to be
Everything you ever wanted you have molded into me
My feet are three sizes too small to fit into the shoes
You laid in front of me before I had the chance to choose
Serrated pursued beneath the table of my youth
And all this comes in as it comes as no surprise
My individuality means more to me
Than you have time to look for or that you'll ever want to see
Laughter in the Rain (track 3)
My walls are falling down I'm built up where love abounds
And you knew I could change but at the time you thought it was strange
That love's taking it's toll and in my heart you have a new role
You smiled at me and gave me tranquility
You pulled me out out of my pain
Cause you are my laughter in the rain
Daily I see in you a love that has made me new
I float in your embrace renouncing my pain without a trace
You give me all that I need and I give back taking your lead
Ms. Virginia (track 4)
Perfect little day job gorgeous wife and kids
You were tiered of the good life you always wondered what you missed
Sometimes the small temptations get crushed by faithfulness
But they often overcome you as you fail the loyalty test
And I stand here watching you kill
What it took you a lifetime to build
Disregarding all of us
When you made the exchange from love to lust
You went out every weekend left your family at home
Made calls of inconvenience on the strip clubs telephone
But you don't call it cheating at least till the day you're caught
Lost everything you needed and got everything you want
*Forever must have been a little longer than you thought it was
Forever must have been a little longer than you thought
Stand there lonely little baby he's coming at you with a kiss
I see this blessed union he always said did not exist
But you won't see me crying I'm not gonna waist my breath
Take care of Miss Virginia if she hasn't left you yet
Match and a Conversation (track 5)
She strikes a match and a conversation she longs to leave her world behind
It was a constant confirmation of her frantic state of mind
Drinking rum down to the bottom in these seven years gone by
Its just another day, it's just another night, its just another low down high
Entertain us baby would you take me by the hand
I could be your kind of woman if you are my kind of man
Promenade us darling, in the center of the room
You know the stars will fade as the night degrades
And reality resumes
She's really getting in the groove now she feels the bass vibrate her toes
Could have been a nighttime player as far as anybody knows
Sinking lower to the bottom as the hazy night goes on
She'll fix her face again, she'll find a place again
They watch her flaunt her silicone
A Part of You (track 6)
I gave you all I am you gave me everything
Except the one I wanted most I asked for a part of you
In turn for all my love you turned away I watched you boast
Why are you waiting there? Why are you so confused?
Why can't you make up your mind and choose?
I don't mean to rush you but you're breaking my heart again
Are we two lovers or are we even friends?
You turned and walked away you told me just to wait
While you were making up your mind well you better decide fast
My patience will not last and you will just get left behind
Sparked Fire (track 7)
You burn crazy, like a sparked fire throwing on the fuel
There is this, everlasting music in your soul
Music is flowing so gracefully from your lips
And all from the sidelines watch you slip
Rhythm is singing a new song on your guitar
Is it heard past the walls of this bar?
I hear music from the back room down the smoky hall
Have another, fire water hear your demons call
All this before you but your unaware or maybe you don't care at all
Some other bright fortune for some other man maybe you don't care at all
Your on empty running too far wildside's brightest song
There is this, everlasting music in your soul
Is it heard past the walls of this bar? Is it heard past the walls of this bar?
Only heard past the walls of this bar
Drawn to the Fire (track 8)
Drawn to the fire? I once said to those little boys
You're gonna taste those burning lights coming by home
And you're only title was free it was further understood to be the only light yea
Transit desire meticulously folding you're gonna taste dissolving winds drifting by home
A little more than you wished a little less now you're in
So now the meat hooks set the cravings can't forget
And it's a long long way from over yet
Dismantled disillusioned disarrayed
Disabled by the choices you have made
Drawn to the fire? Been here many times before
Raise and burn those fire wings that took you back home
Put on your recital for me it was constant motion beneath the mile line
Should I inquire of these mystic treasures you have found
Underneath the ocean's skin that you have made home
You had to be what you've been and now it tears through your skin
So now the meat hooks set the cravings can't forget and it's a long long way from over yet
Lost Love Hearts (track 9)
She thinks so often how she held his hand the shimmer of his laugh and smile
Gone forty nights and days to the sea waves rise and fall for miles
White sails upon the distance break her view the winds will bow her tired hair
Winds carry sail and lonely crys when lost love hearts despair
Fly over the ocean space the seas dance tonight
Far from a warm embrace dreams fade in morning light.
He was to be a mighty sailor man the harshness of this life deceived
He'd soon be coming back to her how could she have believed?
To fight for colors bright and waving long the blood has spilled in foreign lands
Been forty years of hate and war lives lost with shrug of hands.
Down by the shoreline salt from the heart mine
Trails from the skyline swears it's the last time
She dreams she's flying higher than the clouds the colors spin and hold her cares
She'll wait for him 10,000 years when lost love hearts despair
Shadow Dance (track 10)
Take a moment of your precious time to figure out what is real
You're sheltered in your perfect life under your man's heal
Take a minute of your precious time to cover up your mistakes
Your spotless image still remains no matter what it takes
You're trapped inside this burning trance
You close your eyes when shadows dance
Take your hair out of this living room. You're still all that he owns
You shine your lantern down the hall so he can get to his thrown
Don't know what it is you're looking for, but you haven't found it yet
Spent all your time in comforts arms built up on regrets
All "name of the record is mercy creek " songs copyright and published 1998/1999 Mercy Creek, LLC. All rights reserved
"Dirty Water" 2000
Life in Review (track 1)
Did you decide to break, did you decide to bend
Did you hover on being alone
Could it be possible to revile yourself as something other than an idoled clone
And I was hoping something would change we all know your range my friend
And I was hoping that wasn't you life in review my friend
Who will decide your fate plan out your every move
Are you what the team contrived will there be any end
The things you will do before you say I have arrived
Can you appreciate can you remember when
You swore that you would not conform
So now you are a star it's undeniable that you'll be infinitely torn
Dirty Water (track 2)
Great discussions they fill the air tonight I was waiting for some life changing insight
Grand encounters and inhibitions they fade away while you ring on daddy's bill
This time is yours to kill
Talk pours cheap like dirty water you're anticipating
An unwanted list of things you'd alter you're pontificating
Explanations will be the answer of destinations left yet to be explored
Quick creations and spinning stories misinformation drip torture from the hill
This time is yours to kill
Bold eruptions important views distill
Never knowing how life unfolds until
This time is yours to kill
West of Bluefield (track 3)
West of Bluefield life was simple just a handshake and a smile
Were the only things she needed not this social sense of style
She's in the bright lights standing taller
Now that she finally found her scene
She'll make a stunning transformation
Saying goodbye Mabalene
A fine family reputation a touch of class and symphony
Were the only things she needed to deserve their company
West of Bluefield life stays simple with a down home guarantee
She has everything she needs and and that's as real as she'll ever be
Circles( track 4)
From the first time I looked at your face everything seemed out of place
It's crazy take it easy
Steal trap your jaws are sealed before this is over
We'll be crazy take it easy
You were always saying something that I told you that I like to hear
Draw me round in circles in confusion problems disappear
Letting blindness in because I hate what you have become
Not alone, no I'm not the only one
You got a condescending smile you're in a state of self-denial
It's crazy, take it easy
You know the words help spin the tale so many bodies in your trail
It's crazy, take it easy
Sacred Danger Zone( track 5)
Your gonna love the way you move me your gonna love the way I talk
And all the changes I have made since you've been in the Deer side park
And every time I came to see you you slipping further in the black
Increase the pressure of life to you as your shell begins to crack
You know I can't promise you the things that you need to hear
I gotta keep moving on my own
Don't even try blaming me your hand is in what you see
You made it my sacred danger zone
Everyday you read my letters I know you dream to hear my voice
You know the cold steal that you're feeling is the result of your choice
The rod they tear apart your heart with the rod they use to beat you down
It never crosses through my thoughts as I go riding through this town
The Only One( track 6)
Beside you I'm looking for the best reflection
Satisfied by looking for the world, looking for the world
This is a lovely feeling terrified of the meaning
Can not see that you could be the only one
What is this doing for us living a life to bore us
Can not see that you could be the only one, the only one
Leave me speechless waiting for some noble action
Paid the price by waiting for the world
Waiting for the world
* Once you leave you can't come back you are a stranger in your former shack
You can never go back home
I know this must be a surprise but it must be better than you tell me lies
You came to find out why
Watching, waiting can't you feel this great disaster
Wrestles distance can't you feel alive, can't you feel alive?
Taking a Ride( track 7)
Three miles outside this county line Flashing chrome making highways whine
He's gonna ride, yeah he's gonna ride
When the Rpm's are pegging red thrill of speed breaks fear like Hunter said
He's gonna ride, yeah he's gonna ride he's gonna ride
Still believing you've got your freedom
Not deceiving your hearts emotion
May get even you may get closer
Just by taking a ride
He though the rules were made to violate he was everything her mamma hates
You wanna ride, do you wanna ride?
He's got fourteen rings upon his hands and slash marks on his leather pants
You wanna ride, do you wanna ride you wanna ride?
Throttle up as the backdoor slams life laid out oh these changing plans
We gonna ride yeah we gonna ride
I never knew the air could smell this good though I'd never leave that neighborhood
We gonna ride yeah we gonna ride we gonna ride
City Walls( track 8)
Smoke and fire your bridges span you were dealt a loosing hand
Hard to be the best you can hanging around with a rambling man
City walls, city walls, to the great withdraw
Undeniable, been too long since I felt them fall
In this town the same old same you are what they all became
Swore you'd never play their game wing-tipped shoes with a different name
*Perfect ending, ending upside down treading water trying not to drown
It is clear to me that you won't care until I find another dream to share
Check out lines and star reviews the empty things that you pursue
Can't stop overdue stress and strain for your daily view
What's Your Vibe( Track 9)
A studied entrance into the scene strait from some fashion magazine
Checking in the mirror as you walk by got an image you need to imply
I'm making time my love I'm making time
Destinations firmly in my grasp no concern at all for making it last
You know that I am always on my mind got a style meticulously designed
I'm making time my love I'm making time
Hey little girl did you see me tonight
Slowly you turn did you want me tonight
I could be fantasy if you need me tonight
Hey now what's your vibe
You know that Absolute brings out your best the only way to separate you from the rest
Light a cigarette begin to unwind scoaping out the ladies bathroom line
I'm making time my love I'm making time
*My apologies if I see to have a short attention span
It occurs to me you see me as part of your shallow plan
So excuse me now if I need a little time to verify
Your identity, it could be one of your sorry lies
Changing faces lines remain the same dishing out your candy coated game
Another moment you're preoccupied such a lonely place where you reside
I'm making time my love I'm making time
Hill of Fools (track 10)
Had I'd known there'd be trouble wouldn't turn my head
Wish I'd seen what's before me like the old one's said
On this hill of fools we speed down but you will end up dead
Oh this rolling stone won't come rolling over me
Oh this rolling stone won't come rolling over me
Cause I'm tired of living all my days
and nights under your authority
All the odds stacked against me careful where I go
Won't drop out till I'm empty wait to overflow
On this hill of fools we speed down but you never outgrow
Freeze (track 11)
There was a costume party on the side of the road I was a little misdirected by the size of the load
But due to loss of obligation was apparently free
I didn't know what was ahead of me
You didn't give me a chance to make a refusal implement your preconceived accusal
Cause you're the kind of person that nobody can turn down
After all this time did you know the bounds?
Blue lights flash at me blind authority Freeze, Freeze
Accusations fly drink filled alibi Freeze, Freeze
I broke my concentration trying not to loose my head I should be leaving but I end up passing out instead
So due to decadent consumption was just trying to breathe
How could I know what was ahead of me
Add all the consequences to it that are starting to incur when reality's becoming a blur
Cause you're the kind of person that their prejudice indites
When you're high on life in the streets at night
*Throw me down thought you knew I was just the first in view
Wasting time tell your tale guilt runs free, innocence jailed
I'm feeling your intimidation you begin your demonstration
Really got no obligation didn't do the crime
Miles Away (track 12)
You know we live our lives and we pay our bills your hair lays on the windowsill
I need you my love always
You know our days are filled as we chase the lines and all the miles past could not define
I need you my love always
So everyday I find no matter where we are
Together destinations never seem that far
And I feel at home today from miles away
Well I sit back smile and appreciate everything together we create
I need you my love always
Flexibility when we devise to make a change a chance we improvise
I need you my love always
*Not by circumstance come on take a chance
We can't stay long we got another show
Realize our dream we make a perfect team
Using everything we know
All "Dirty Water " songs copyright and published 2000/2001 Mercy Creek, LLC. All rights reserved
"Storm Has Blown Over" 2002
Can We Talk( track 1)
Laying down right across your lap you keep telling me it will happen all at once
The way you laugh on the telephone makes me think that it won't be long for us, be long for us
Can we talk for a minute
If we leave it to ourselves
Will our world have anything in it
Would you blame somebody else
Thought it all would stay together saying things we never will know all it does
Answers knocking at your front door all the things your looking for it always was, it always was
*It might be just another phase I know it's going on for days
Your eyes light up and start to glaze it's driving me wild
Outside the Line (track 2)
Going home it's been about 11 days been alone thinking whether not I should stay
Late last night outside of the corner store wasting time wondering if there ain't nothing more
And now you're picking up all the broken glass around you after the fight
And now you're hoping you're past is miles back behind you after last night
Well I know it's gonna work this time
Yea I know it's gonna work this time
Don't know what you will find there when you think outside the line
Outside the line
Regret all of the circumstances you display all your friends one by one fade away
Can't take back all the images that you have seen always feeling like you're somewhere in between
And now you're picking up all the broken glass around you after the win
And now you're hoping you're past is miles back behind you from the places you've been
Closer (track 3)
All my searching never got me very far and I see my reflection standing in the dark
And all the things we left behind when it was up to you
Well I know just what you're saying but I haven't got a clue
Hold you closer, closer in my arms now
On our way to Reno gambling for the chance
All these odds stacked up against you, you made you're final stance
And all the trails we left behind it's never been the same
Well I know all of your secrets, I don't even know you're name
All the trails we left behind went onto something new
I know everything about you, but I don't know you
Half Way There (track 4)
They tried to tie you down take all your energy you made your own direction and your destiny
So you chose a path not many others do don't want no one to be in control of you
No one said that it was gonna be fair
You know you're half way there, you're only half way there
You know you're out of luck you're on a losing streak going against the grain on a one way street
You know you'll make it through right out the other side you'll be so glad you did all you can do is try
*I can't believe you made it this far you should be happy
So many places left for you to go
It's all a game you're taking a chance, there's no guarantee
There is always room to grow
Holding Onto Me (track 5)
Once a life time someone comes around nothing like it you have ever found
Love is not an easy thing to show, I know chase me down and never let me go
Keep holding onto me
Can't believe you're right before my eyes better than I ever fantasized
Universe is knocking at our door, I'm sure always leave me asking you for more
*Everything I want, everything I want
Could not ask for more, for more
Hypnotized (track 6)
I nearly walked right past the second door that led me right back to the one before
Tell me where would you expect to be when you are led around by your fantasy
I know that I, I've been hypnotized
Darlin' don't you look pretty
Let me hold your hand
Take you round this city
You gotta get it while you can, you gotta get it while you can.
Say you're in the scene you're underground know more than anybody else about this town
I can show you around if you are free you can relax and leave it up to me
I know that I, I've been hypnotized
The beautiful things that you surround I know that nothing else like it has been found
In the space between the broken lines the pressure builds and you're running out of time
I know that I, I've been hypnotized
Storm Has Blown Over ( track 7)
This one really kept me up all night know you're tired of that same old fight
Can't keep ripping out your tender core or you won't be around anymore, be around anymore
Storm has blown over we're both all right
It's time to move on with the rest of our lives
We won't spend it fighting that's just wasting time
That's just wasting time
Didn't know what I was doing wrong told myself that for way too long
Hiding under a shadow of guilt tearing down everything we have built, everything we have built
*Need to know, need to know how I feel
Stain ( track 8)
Say that you'll be fine over the back line won't let it impair
Emotions colder now that it's over act like you don't care it must hurt a little
Always wanted more now it's time to settle the score
Where to place the blame tell yourself it won't stain
But it must hurt a little
Feelings amplify trapping you in by fencing in your mind
Never delaying confusions playing always on rewind it must hurt a little
*Are you strong enough to admit it? If not only to yourself
You can change if you're committed
Be unlike anything else
Silent (track 9)
Lie in bed lie awake waiting for the sun to break
Evening shadows dissipate I trust that you slept well again
You're always, always, always, always looking for a show
Stuck in situations that you never will outgrow
You're silent for a moment
Long enough to hear me say too bad it had to end this way
On our own no time to spare I'm going home would you meet me there?
Another night you're unaware I trust that you slept well again
*Though you were my first love, first love know you're not the last
Just in time to see love, see love me as I walk past
4th of July (track 10)
Knew I had you when you walked through that door night is young so get ready to explore
Come on fast come on strong feel so good so tell me why is it wrong
On the sidewalk lighting the fire
Come and save me 4th of July on the sidewalk
No one told us that they knew we were gone strolled back in pretending nothing was wrong
Raised our glasses ordered another two save it sister he ain't talking to you
*Feeling something think it's nothing looking for the way to go
All songs Nystrom/Ball
All "Storm Has Blown Over" songs copyright and published 2002/2003 Mercy Creek, LLC. All rights reserved
"Bonfire of Vanities" 2005
Born to Rock (track 1)
Wasting daylight in the shopping mall
Interrupted by your cell phone call
Oh baby I wish that did it for me, yeah for me
Your only talent is the clothes you wear
A world around you but you don't care
Oh baby I wish that did it for me
I am living life on the road
Not just doing what I've been told
Cause I was born to rock-n-roll
You're thirty-seven sounding like you're twelve
Play the game or you're put on the shelf
Oh baby I wish that did it for me
Another city just another day
I can't imagine any other way
Oh babe you know that's what does it for me, yeah for me
Turn to Rain ( track 2)
Drowning in my own lifestyle lately I tell myself I'll
Jump on the first train that will take me away
Somehow I end up staying can't beat the rent I'm paying
And all the friends that I made along the way
Nothing is as bad as it
Seems to be at the moment
Sunshine won't always turn to rain
Sometimes I take for granted all the things I've been handed
Should have been grateful and it's changing today
Ready or Not ( track 3)
This time you took off running boy you scared me half to death
You know I swore that you would know by now
Oh I thought our life to you was more than second best
You know I swore that you would know by now
Guess I thought that you would know by now
How did you forget that our lives are on this bet
And it's always just a choice we make
But before you jump aside look around you have arrived
Opportunity is yours so take it
Ready or not don't pretend you forgot
That you promised me the world
So you're coming back today I'll thank my lucky stars
And wait for you to leave it all again
I am still in disbelief that you took it all this far so go ahead
Leave it all again, one more time leave it all again
Freedom ( track 4)
Here I am trying to reign my soul back in, back in
I feel coldness pressing on my skin, back in
When the music starts to play the beauty is revealed
Another night another day with you out on the field
Dance in whiteness of the clouds and never leave the ground
Beating drums of freedom and it's freedom that we found
Oh you'll never see me go to pieces I won't loose my head
But if I do than lay my bones beside the river bed
Catch my breath and catch myself a dream, a dream
Load is getting lighter than it seems, a dream
Tonight we lay our heads beneath a canopy of stars
Don't matter what they say when you are happy who you are
Treasure ( track 5)
Treasure everywhere you've been
You can't go back there again
Lightning never hits you twice
When it's time to roll the dice
Waiting too long in the traffic line I gotta get on home it's a quarter to nine
Because tonight is gonna be a perfect night great time to be alive
Look around you when you're alone and you notice things on your way home
You can't belive how much the world has grown in full bloom tonight
Sometimes everyone's taken for granted everything in life they work so hard planning
You reach for more but the ground is slanted uphill all your life
Look around you and start to think you gotta live your life just past the brink
It could all be gone before you stop to blink open up your eyes
Summer ( track 6)
Beautiful time lovely weekend at the beach
Sunburn and wine relaxation's within reach
Blow up the tube riding the waves like you've gone crazy
Kick off your shoes loosen your belt get lazy
Finally it's your vacation stop your plans because it's time to
Forget your occupation leave behind the bills
Love the freedom sensation with you long after it's over
I've waited all year for this week it is finally here it's Summer
Watching the tide could have been pulled out of a dream
Come back inside we're serving your favorite ice cream
Cruise through the shops think I will buy myself a key chain
Perfect backdrop for this picture to frame
Leave the Light On ( Track 7)
Walking down the hallway and I saw your face in a photograph
Thinking how we saw so many people and places it makes me laugh
Driving all those midnight miles across the county line trying to stay on track
What you took for granted was the best time of your life and you want it back
Never stop keep right on right on
I will leave the light on light on
Never stop keep right on right on right
Racing through this life we thought that we'd be late but we're right on time, always right on time
Spending all the money that we thought we'd make never made a dime, never made a dime
Take Back the Time ( track 8)
No one knows but a mother standing in the wings wishing she could take his place
But she soon will discover she can't do a thing to try to save him from his own fate
Well you thought that it would pass
But you grew up way to fast
You keep running off the track
And you just can't take it back
Never can take back the time
No one knows but a love what it's like to wait with the future up in the air
Will we ever recover will we ever be safe nothing matters when your not there
Take It Away ( track 9)
Growing up I never saw it's not about what you gave me
There is always so much more that never was in sight
Does it make you feel good when you rob me of my safety
Take it away, take it away tonight
You're showing me now what you will allow
You're showing me how to live alone
Try to make up for all the times before
Tell me where you've been
When you come by knocking at my door
Should I let you in, I let you in
In a dessert land and you are looking for a fountain
Did you think coming back here would make everything right
It takes more than one small push to move aside this mountain
Take it away, take it away tonight
I'll Find a Place (Track 10)
I'll find a place it won't be very long
It won't be very long if we leave today
There was a time when the world was fine and you thought you were ahead of the game
Then you turned around and it let you down and there is no one else to blame
I had a dream again last night that always end the same
When you're stuck inside your inner child is getting caught out in the rain
Should have known that it wasn't home until the welcome mat's put down
And it just ain't right how it feels tonight with all the ghosts out in this town
I had a dream again last night that always ends the same
When you're stuck inside your inner child is getting caught out in the rain
Take your own advise listen to what your heart is saying
All songs by Nystrom/Ball
All "Bonfire of Vanities" songs copyright and published 2004/2005 Mercy Creek LLC. All rights reserved
