Looking down on empty streets all she can see

Are the dreams all made solid

Are the dreams all made real

All of the building

All of those cars

Were once just a dream

In somebody's head

She pictures the broken glass

She pictures the steam

She pictures a soul

With no leak at the steam

Let's take the boat out

Wait until darkness

Let's take the boat out

Wait until darkness come

Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey

Nowhere in the suburbs

In the cold light of day

There in the midst of it so alive and alone

Words support like bone

Dreaming of Mercy Street

Wear your inside out

Looking for mercy

In your daddy's arms again

Dreaming of Mercy Street

Swear they move that sign

Looking for mercy

In your daddy's arms

Pulling out the papers from drawers that slide smooth

Tugging at the darkness

Word upon word

Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box

To the priest he's the doctor

He can handle the shocks

Dreaming of the tenderness

The tremble in the hips

Of kissing Mary's lips

Dreaming of Mercy Street

Wear your inside out

Looking for mercy

In your daddy's arms again

Dreaming of Mercy Street

Swear they move that sign

Looking for mercy

In your daddy's arms