Barry McCormack - Small Mercies (Live at The Unitarian Church Dublin)

Barry McCormack singing the title track from his new album Small Mercies at The Unitarian Church in Dublin on 29/8/11.

Lyrics:

On Friday nights I can hear the dogs from here
The roar of the crowd in the wind
And the local´s full of locals
They´ve no time for blow-ins
You´d be afraid of your life to go in

And if things are gonna stay the same around here
Some things are gonna have to change
The Jews had long gone
The pawnbrokers closed down
And I had returned again

Chorus:

Small mercies
Where have you been?
Hiding in the shadows again
In the shadows again

My pockets were full of notes to myself
Reminders and pointers and lists
Things that had fallen
Out of library books
A litany of for and against

I´d promised myself I´d stop pondering
The ways I´d wound up in this bind
And the bloke round in the garage
Looked happy as Larry
But I was sure he was out of his mind

Chorus

All things must pass and pass they will
I was praying that this´d pass soon
I was hiding out
And biding my time
Amongst the ghosts of a greasy spoon

It´s hard to know when you´re being a stoic
And when you´ve become resigned
But the bloke round in the garage
Didn´t seem too concerned
He had loftier things on his mind

Chorus


The performance was a part of the Young Hearts Run Free: Football/The Heart's Yearning event.

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[caseydj17]

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