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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More smoky, melancholy folk from Italian singer-songwriter Phill Reynolds, laced with elements of Americana, country, and the blues. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 13, 2021
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