Mercy

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This is the sequel to "Torch Song." The answer was no.

This is probably the most abstract song -- lyrically, anyway -- that I've written. Lots of free-associations on the Problem of Evil. It might not make any sense to anyone else, but somehow that doesn't bother me very much.

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this is the place
where things get lost
without a trace
without a cause
I'm saving grace
at any cost
I love the way
you laugh it off

I'm wide awake
I see how far
I am a wake
I'm a funeral car
the chosen make
their lucky stars
that they can thank
when skies go dark

here they come
the worst shotgun sins
that I have ever seen

I don't believe
this is the best
we can receive
we are so blessed
who starts to grieve?
who pounds their chest?
I turn to leave
you do the rest

here they come
the worst shotgun sins
that I have ever seen

and here He comes
with pitch-black satin skin
that I have never seen

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from The Napoleon of Crime, released September 16, 2012
written by David Gassmann

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"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order . . . My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Final Problem" ... more

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