Edge Man, Mercy Train

from Cadillac Motel by Dogs on Main Street

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Raining ash on the steel roof
Blowing down the southwest line
Charlie turns and smiles
I stare at his stolen youth
Buried back behind the fear in his eyes

From Eugene clear on down Fresno
We take all the work we can find
At nights I dream of fields back in Ohio
The waving wheat and life I left behind

Mercy, mercy me
Ain't no other place I'd rather be
Mercy, mercy train
In the land of plenty, ain't no use for no idle hands

Sometimes I wish fate would pick me
Like the fruit I pluck off them vines
I'd catch the 6:10 back to my baby
Teach her dancing on the front porch in evening light

But I've grown weary of all this leaving
Memory fades like taillights gone by
But, Charlie, I hear this frail freedom ringing
A quiet kindness, even if just for a time

Mercy, oh mercy train
I just can't fit nowhere and I can't keep starting again
Mercy, mercy me
If I come home, man, remember me as I used to be

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from Cadillac Motel, released January 14, 2022

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