Gravity (2000)
 
At The Mercy
Are you out in the rain, heartbroken brain, slow steps on a lonely street?
Well a good day is sure hard to find, when you’re just trying to find your feet
His well-measured words went much further than you first thought
The end of love can be a blindside blast, a sniper’s unexpected shot

Now you’re walking on the roadside of a loveless great unknown
The ghosts of former lovers, and your family on the phone

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At the mercy of someone above
You trust and try to be true
Be he don’t answer your calls
Does he even hear you calling at all?

She’s as tall as the doctor, but he won’t look her in the eye
He says, “You might not be able to walk, but we’ll do our best to keep you alive.”
Strange, cause she worked as a nurse, 'til her hands couldn’t feel a pulse
Is it Murphy’s law, a genetic flaw, or just life’s ironic waltz
And now she stumbles round the edge of the lifeless great unknown
Feigned smile of acceptance, forced small-talk on the phone

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I dropped off my daughter, but her mommy was crying at the door
Her wildest brother had drowned, in a wasted group of four
The others swam west to land, but he always took a different tack
He laid down in calm water, and he ain’t never coming back
He’d finally fallen off the edge into that lifeless dark unknown
A life well-worth preserving, dropped silent as a stone

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