LIVE WIRE MERCY

[Intro – Guitar Riff] [Verse 1] I woke up with the current running underneath my skin. The room was dark and silent, but the street was breaking in. There was blue light on the ceiling, there was smoke around the door. Somebody down on Seventh Street was begging heaven for more. I put my hand against the window. The glass began to shake. The city said: “You want forgiveness? First give me something I can take.” [Pre-Chorus] I got one foot in the fire, one hand upon the wheel. I don’t need another promise. I need something I can feel. [Chorus] Give me live wire mercy, let it move from bone to bone. Live wire mercy, make a stranger feel like home. Don’t save me softly. Don’t bless me from above. Give me live wire mercy, the dangerous kind of love. [Verse 2] I met a woman in the doorway with a silver painted mouth. She said: “Everybody talks about freedom. Nobody knows the way out.” She touched the scar beneath my collar. The streetlights lost their names. She said: “You’ve been calling it desire, but it looks a lot like shame.” I said: “Maybe I’m a sinner.” She said: “That word is getting old. You’re just another frightened man pretending fear is self-control.” [Chorus] Give me live wire mercy, let it move from bone to bone. Live wire mercy, make this borrowed body known. Don’t save me softly. Don’t teach me how to love. Give me live wire mercy, the dangerous kind of touch. [Instrumental – Concise Guitar Solo] [Breakdown – Piano, Bass and Voice] No angel. No gun. No place left to run. No sermon. No sign. Just your pulse against mine. [Final Chorus] Give me live wire mercy, let it burn without a flame. Live wire mercy, call my body by its name. Don’t save me softly. I’ve had softness long enough. Give me live wire mercy— [Hard Stop] or don’t call it love.