The Lyrics Mercury Falling by Sting

 

The Hounds of Winter
I Hung My Head
Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
I Was Brought To My Senses
You Still Touch Me
I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
All Four Seasons
La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Valparaiso
Lithium Sunset
The Hounds of Winter
Mercury falling
I Rise from my bed
Collect my thoughts together
I have to hold my head
It seems that she's gone
And somehow I am pinned by
The Hounds of Winter
Howling in the wind

 
I walk through the day
My coat around my ears
I look for my companion
I have to dry my tears
It seems that she's gone
Leaving me too soon
I'm as dark as December
I'm as cold as the Man in the Moon

 
I still see her face
As beautiful as day
It's easy to remember
Remember my love that way
All I hear is that lonesome sound
The Hounds of Winter
They follow me down

 
I can't make up the fire
The way that she could
I spend all my days
In the search for dry wood
Board all the windows and close
The front door
I can't believe she won't be here
Anymore

 
I still see her face
As beautiful as day
It's easy to remember
Remember my love that way
All I hear is that lonesome sound
The Hounds of Winter
They follow me down

 
A season for joy
A season for sorrow
Where she's gone
I will surely,surely follow
She brightened my day
She warmed the coldest night
The Hounds of Winter
They got me in their sights

 
I still see her face
As beautiful as day
It's easy to remember
Remember my love that way
All I hear is that lonesome sound
The Hounds of Winter
They harry me down

 
I Hung My Head
Early one morning
With time to kill
I borrowed Jeb's rifle
And sat on the hill
I saw a lone rider
Crossing the plain
I drew a bead on him
To practice my aim
May brother's rifle
Went off in my hand
A shot rang out
Across the land
The horse he kept running
The rider was dead
I hung my head I hung my head

 
I set off running
To wake from the dream
My brother's rifle
Went into the stream
I kept on running
Into the salt lands
And that's where they found me
My head in my hands
The sheriff he asked me
Why had I run
Then it came to me
Just what I had done
And all for no reason
Just one piece of lead
I hung my head I hung my head

 
Here in the courthouse
The whole town is there
I see the judge
High up in his chair
"Explain to the courtroom
What went through your mind
And we'll ask the jury
What verdict they find"
I said, "I felt the power
Of death over life
I orphaned his children
I widowed his wife
I beg their forgiveness
I wish I was dead"
I hung my head I hung my head

 
Early one morning
With time to kill
I see the gallows
Up on the hill
And out on the distance
A trick of the brain
I see a lone rider
Crossing the plain
He's come to fetch me
To see what they done
We'll ride together
'Til kingdom come
I pray for God's mercy
For soon I'll be dead
I hung my head I hung my head

 
Let Your Soul Be Your PilotSting in the studio for Mercury Falling
When you're down and they're counting
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there's no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you - He'll guide you well

 
When the doctors failed to heal you
When no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
When there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
The compass spins between heaven and hell
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you - He'll guide you well

 
And your eyes turn towards the window pane
To the lights upon the hill
The distance seems so strange to you now
And the dark room seems so still

 
Let your pain be my sorrow
Let your tears be my tears too
Let your courage be my model
That the North you find will be true
When there's no more useless information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you - Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you along the way

 
I Was Brought To My Senses
Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
Iwondered how I could win you
Or if I could make you mine
Or if I could make you mine

 
The wind it wa so insistent
With tales of a stormy South
But when I spied two birds sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I

 
I walked out this morning
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of Heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name and that our love would always last
And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree
The shape of our future
The shape of all our history
And out of the confusion
Where the river meetes the sea
Came things I'd never seen
Things I'd never seen

 
I was brought to my senses
Iwas blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me

 
I know it's true
It's written in a sky as blue
As blue as your eyes , as blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw
Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the Moon and Sun
And when our courtly dance had run
It's course across the sky
Then together we would lie
And out of the confusion
Where the river meetes the sea
Something new would arrive
Something better would arrive

 
I was brought to my senses
Iwas blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me

 
You Still Touch Me
Another night finds me alone
In my dreams
You still touch me
Your picture by my telephone
In that smile
You still thrill me

 
Now if I sleep, I sleep here alone
In my bed tonight
You still haunt me
And if I'm falling
I'm falling like a stone
In my nightmares
You still hold me

 
And afterall that we've been through
Now I'm wondering
If you still blame me
If only half of this were true
That you believe of me
You still shame me

 
Dark rain will fall until I see your face
I close my eyes
I seem to hear the raindrops saying
You won't come back
You still touch me

 
I wonder if you feel the same way as I do
And you'd come back
You still touch me

 
Another night finds me alone
In my bed tonight
You still haunt me
You still hold me
You still touch me

 
I'm So Happy I Can't Stop CryingSting in a light moment at the Lakehouse
Seven weeks have passed now since she left me
She shows her face to ask me how I am
She says the kids are fine and they miss me
Maybe I could come and baby-sit sometime
She says, "Are you O.K.? I was worried about you
Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy."
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears

 
I saw a friend of mine. He said, "I was worried about you
I heard she had another man, I wondered how you felt about it?"
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears
Saw my lawyer, Mr. Good News
He got me joint custody and legal separation
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears

 
I took a walk alone last night
I looked up at the stars
To try and find an answer in my life
I chose a star for me. I chose a star for him
I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife
Something made me smile
Something seemed to ease the pain
Something about the universe and how it's all connected

 
The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream
We try to do the best within the given time
A kid should be with his mother, everybody knows that
What can a father do but babysit sometimes?
I saw that friend of mine, he said, "You look different somehow."
I said, "Everybody's got to leave the darkness sometime."
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears

 
All Four Seasons
With her smile as sweet as a warm wind in summer
She's got me flying like a bird in a bright June sky
And then just when she thinks that I've got her number
Brings me down to the ground with her wintery eye
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day

 
And when the nighttime comes with no interference
To our warm summer love with all it's charms
But like a thoroughbred horse she can turn on a sixpence
And I find that I'm back in mistress Winter's arms
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day

 
How will I know?
How can I tell?
Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins
She can be kind
She can be cruel
She's got me guessing like a game show fool

 
She can change her mind like she changes her sweater
From one minute to the next it's hard to tell
She blows hot and cold just like stormy weather
She's my gift from the Lord or a fiend from hell
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day

 
Watching the weatherman's been no good at all
Winter, spring, summer, I'm bound for a fall
There are no long term predictions for my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day

 
How will I know?
How can I tell?
Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins
She can be kind
She can be cruel
She's got me guessing like a game show fool

 
If it's a sunny day I take my umbrella
Just in case the raindrops start to fall
You could say that I'm just a cautious fellow
I don't want to be caught in a sudden squall
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day

 
La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Dansons tu dis
Et moi, je suis
Mes pas sont gauches
Mes pieds tu fauches
Je crains les sots
Je cherche en vain les mots
Pour m'expliquer ta vie, alors
Tu ments, ma Soeur
Tu brises mon coeur
Je pense, tu sais
Erreurs, jamais
J'ecoute, tu parles
Je ne comprends pas bien
La Belle Dame sans Regrets

 
Je pleure, tu ris
Je chante, tu cries
Tu semes les graines
D'un mauvais chene
Mon ble s'envole
Tu en a ras le bol
J'attends, toujours
Mes cris sont sourds
Tu ments, ma Soeur
Tu brises mon coeur
Je pense, tu sais
Erreurs, jamais
J'ecoute, tu parles
Je ne comprends pas bien
La Belle Dame sans Regrets

 
Valparaiso
Chase the dog star
Over the sea
Home where my true love is waiting for me
Rope the South wind
Canvas the stars
Harness the moonlight
So she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

 
Red the post light
Starboard the green
How will she know of the devils I've seen
Cross in the sky, star of the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

 
And every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea

 
If I should ever die
And water's my grave
She'll never know if I'm damned or if I'm saved
See the ghost fly over the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

 
Lithium SunsetSting & the band - circa 1996
Fill my eyes
O Lithium sunset
And take this lonesome burden
Of worry from my mind

 
Take this heartache
Of obsidian darkness
And fold my darkness
Into your yellow light

 
I've been scattered I've been shattered
I've bee knocked out of the race
But I'll get better
I feel your light upon my face

 
Heal my soul
O Lithium sunset
And I'll ride the turning world
Into another night.

 
See mercury falling...

 
 
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All songs written, and composed by Sting except "La Belle Dame Sans Regrets" written and composed by Sting and Dominic Miller. (c) 1996 Steerpike Limited