Sister of Mercy

She lives in a big white house

The rooms are lemon, and she's devoted to life

Of keeping this house just right, oh-whoa

The weekends are perfectly nice, oh-whoa

She doesn't talk when he comes home at night

Twenty-five years, she's just the same

She's a lonely woman, quiet in her ways

Then he comes home one night

She kills him with a knife

She's the one who's a-living in paradise

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, oh, don't cry for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, it's all right for me

Now she sits in a big white chair

In a room that's not so different to the one back there

She turns her face to the light

But she's blinded by her life

You can hear her cry alone at night

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, oh, don't cry for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, it's all right for me

So have mercy on that woman

You don't know the way it's been

You don't know the trouble her eyes have seen

Can you feel the kiss of life

When you come home at night?

Well, you better not turn your back on a paradise

Whoa-oh-oh

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, oh, don't cry for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, it's all right for me

Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)

Sister of mercy, oh-oh, oh-oh

Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)

Sister of mercy, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, oh, don't cry for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, it's all right for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, oh, don't cry for me

Sister of mercy

No, sister of mercy, it's all right for me