{"id":1290,"date":"2006-02-04T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2006-02-04T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T19:36:43","slug":"mercy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marygauthier.com\/lyrics.html\">Written by Mary Gauthier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My father could use a little mercy now<br \/>\nThe fruits of his labor<br \/>\nFall and rot slowly on the ground<br \/>\nHis work is almost over<br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be long and he won&#8217;t be around<br \/>\nI love my father, and he could use some mercy now<\/p>\n<p>My brother could use a little mercy now<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a stranger to freedom<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s shackled to his fears and doubts<br \/>\nThe pain that he lives in is<br \/>\nAlmost more than living will allow<br \/>\nI love my brother, and he could use some mercy now<\/p>\n<p>My church and my country could use a little mercy now<br \/>\nAs they sink into a poisoned pit<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s going to take forever to climb out<br \/>\nThey carry the weight of the faithful<br \/>\nWho follow them down<br \/>\nI love my church and country, and they could use some mercy now<\/p>\n<p>Every living thing could use a little mercy now<br \/>\nOnly the hand of grace can end the race<br \/>\nTowards another mushroom cloud<br \/>\nPeople in power, well<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll do anything to keep their crown<br \/>\nI love life, and life itself could use some mercy now<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now<br \/>\nI know we don&#8217;t deserve it<br \/>\nBut we need it anyhow<br \/>\nWe hang in the balance<br \/>\nDangle &#8216;tween hell and hallowed ground<br \/>\nEvery single one of us could use some mercy now<br \/>\nEvery single one of us could use some mercy now<br \/>\nEvery single one of us could use some mercy now<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/3zri58\">Download MP3<\/a>]  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marygauthier.com\/default.aspx\">Watch the Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mary Gauthier My father could use a little mercy now The fruits of his labor Fall and rot slowly on the ground His work is almost over It won&#8217;t be long and he won&#8217;t be around I love &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-kO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}