Song Lyrics Harry Chapin - Mercenaries    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> H>> Harry Chapin Singer Lyrics [Harry Chapin other resources]>> Mercenaries Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Harry Chapin Music Title/Track: Mercenaries Theme ID: 6544 Album: N/A It's a slow motion night In the hot city lights Past time when the good folks Are snoring in bed On a loose-jointed cruise To recolor your blues With illegal notions alive, Alive in your head You are back from some war That you've been fighting for Some old blue blood bastard In a dark pinstripe suit and the word from your loins Has your mind in your groin And your back pocket burning with blood Blood money loot So, you walk past the glow Of the flicker-picture shows Where the raincoat men wait For a child to come by And the women in doorways Who have nothing to say 'Cause your money is talking To the ones that you would try She owns the block With the dead pawnshop clock She's the answer to dreams That you pay to come true She's got no heart of gold But that's not what she's sold She just sees herself doing what she What she has to do And she's all that you're hoping As her coat falls open Give her bread she leads you To a bed on the floor Where for ten million years And through ten billion tears The armies of bootmen have marched Back from their wars She's in that state of grace Before time finds her face With a mind of old wisdoms And a body still young And she tastes as sweet As a child's chocolate Before the butts and the whiskey Had wasted the taste of your tongue Play the music again Of the grey-stubble men That groaning blue symphony Moans evermore And you watch as she fakes it And of course you just take it She's better than others You never paid money for You've used up your booty-aca Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Paint A Picture Of Yourself (Michael), Poor Damned Fool, Pretzel Man, Remember When the Music, Roll Down The River, Salt And Pepper, Sandy, Saturday Morning, Sequel, She Is Always Seventeen, She Sings Songs Without Words, Shooting Star, Short Stories, Silly Little Girl, Six String Orchestra, Sniper, Somebody Said, Someone Keeps Calling My Name, Sometime, Somewhere Wife, Song for Myself, Song Man, Star Tripper, Stop Singing These Sad Songs, Story Of A Life, Stranger with the Melodies, Sunday Morning Sunshine, Tangled Up Puppet, Taxi, The Day They Closed the Factory Down, The Mayor Of Candor Lied, The Parades Still Passing By, The Parades Still Passing By, The Rock, The Same Sad Singer, The Shortest Story, The Story Of A Life, There Was Only One Choice, They Call Her Easy, Thirty Thousand Pounds Of Bananas, Thirty Tousand Pounds Of Bananas, Up On A Shelf, Up On the Shelf, Vacancy, W*O*L*D*, We Grew Up A Little Bit, We Were Three, What Made America Famous, Why Do Little Girls?, Why Should People Stay the Same, Winter Song, Other Harry Chapin song Lyrics 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas Lyrics A Better Place To Be Lyrics A Lot of Lonely People Tonight Lyrics A Quiet Little Love Affair Lyrics All My Lifes A Circle Lyrics And The Baby Never Cries Lyrics Anthem Lyrics Any Old Kind Of Day Lyrics Babysitter Lyrics Barefoot Boy Lyrics Basic Protest Song Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Harry Connick Lyrics Jr. Harry Connick Lyrics Harry James Lyrics Harry James Orchestra Lyrics Harry McClintock Lyrics Harry Mills Lyrics Harry Nilsson Lyrics Harry Potter Lyrics Harry Secombe Lyrics Harry Simeone Chorale Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy