Thompson Twins Songs - Sister of Mercy Lyrics

Thompson Twins - Sister of Mercy

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Album: Into the Gap
Released: 1984

Sister of Mercy Lyrics

She lives in a big white house
The rooms are lemon and she's devoted to life
of keeping this house just right, ooh, ooh
The weekends are perfectly nice ooh, ooh
And 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
Now she's the one who's a living in paradise
(chorus)
(Sister of Mercy) No sister of mercy
Oh don't cry for me
(sister of mercy) No sister of mercy
It's all alright 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 is blinded by her life
You can hear her cry alone at night
(REPEAT CHORUS)
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
(REPEAT CHORUS)
Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)
Sister of mercy oh, oh
Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)
Sister of mercy oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
(REPEAT CHORUS x 2)

Writer/s: BAILEY, TOM / CURRIE, ALANNAH JOY / LEEWAY, JOSEPH MARTIN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Sister of Mercy Song Chart

Not to be confused with the Leonard Cohen song "Sisters of Mercy," this was a UK hit for Thompson Twins inspired by a news story that band members Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie heard about.

The song tells the story of a woman who kills her husband after years of abuse. The real case took place in France, where the killing was ruled a "crime of passion" and not tried as a murder. In our interview with Tom Bailey , he explained: "We started talking about this in an intellectual political sense, and then realized it would be a great subject for a song, and a very difficult one, as well.

The subject is domestic abuse, domestic violence, and yet it just seemed to be part of everyone's life. To deny it would be would be too scared."

This song started out as a poem written by Alannah Currie. The poem was written from the point of view of the woman, so they altered the lyric so Tom Bailey could sing it. This was common practice for the group, as they usually had to tweak the gender of Currie's lyrics.