Standing on the corner, two homeless daughters
Young eyes that have seen too many things
Shivering there with broken wings,
even now the memory stings
The rain was cold, cut to the bone, the kind you feel when you’re all alone
But the pain that hit even harder
Was the look on the face of our father,
driving up in his car and choosing not to bother
We can make the angels sing, and we can make them cry
With all the trouble that living brings, can’t help but wonder why
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy for heaven’s sake
Oh Mercy, please heal this human ache
I got out, but my sister’s in deep,
lost her mind living on the street
Caught in the undertow of mistreating
While I built a fortress of succeeding, lost track of her tender heart beating
If she’s mad, how is it, that I’m the one acting crazy,
like that night I dropped her last Christmas eve
As the snow fell she turned the key,
to the storage locker where she’d sleep,
and I pretended not to see
We can make the angels sing, and we can make them cry
With all the trouble that living brings, can’t help but wonder why
Mercy, mercy, mercy for heaven’s sake
Oh mercy, please heal this human ache
My sister passed away this year,
wiser now, the choice was clear
We brought her home before she departed
Going back to where we started, with a prayer for the open hearted
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy for heaven’s sake
Oh Mercy, please heal this human ache
Mercy, mercy for how we break,
Oh Mercy, please heal this human ache
credits
from Sanctuary (Deluxe Edition with Booklet),
released March 3, 2023
Publishers: Rebecca Folsom (ASCAP/Easy World Productions)
Contributors: Rebecca Folsom (Producer), Rebecca Folsom (Writer), Rebecca Folsom (Performer), Rebecca Folsom (Composer), Rebecca Folsom (Lyricist), Rebecca Folsom (Mixing Engineer), Tom Wasinger (Producer), Tom Wasinger (Engineer), Tom Wasinger (Mixing Engineer), James Tuttle (Mixing Engineer)
Born and raised in Boulder, CO, Rebecca has played on BBC television/radio for an audience of 1.5 million, Red Rocks
Amphitheater in Colorado, The Bluebird and Opryland in Nashville. Her song Sanctuary was a semi-finalist in the “2021 International Songwriting Competition.” and Better Times was #1 on National Folk Radio DJ Chart with 5 months on the Top 50 National Americana Country Radio Chart....more
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