| Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Could it be that when the song says: " she pictures the broken glass, she pictures the steam, she pictures a soul with no leak at the seam" It means that she thinks that even though she is suicidal and she knows it, she thinks it is ok to commit suicide and her soul will not suffer the eternal consequences "with no leak" that her soul will remain intact because she is the victim of her situation and of what her parents did to her????? Also; the paragraph about "pale green and gray, the suburbs, the light of day, so alive and alone words support like bone" means that she doesn´t feel safe or at peace at all and writing is definitely what keeps her from breaking down and falling out of this world. I think that the "mercy street" actually never existed, it is the ideal place or home that she yerns she had grown up in. Mercy street is the place were she can be happy, innocent and normal, wearing her inside out being this her normal childhood she didn´t get. A place were she feels safe in her loving and caring father´s arms, BUT they moved the sign because she can´t find what she never had. If you think this through It´s so sad........ please let me know if this makes any sense to anyone jejeje |
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