Mercury Id Blues - Will Stratton

Hey, you found me at long last

I’ve been pacing here all decade for you

Can you feed me nice and slow

Like I’ll never eat again

It’s true you know

I’ve been rootless, possessed by what I can’t find

Now I’m useless, in love out of my mind

My friends shake me and they say

Don’t you speak too soon, my William

This might not stay

But I scorn them and reply

That it matters not one whit

What lives and dies

I’ve been restless, caressed by eaves so tall

Now I’m bested, a trophy on a wall

Will I ever have another like you?

Don’t you dare tell me the truth

I’d rather spend the rest of my life

Trying in vain to reel in that line

When water is the only proof

Maybe nothing can compare

But I’ll sit here catching nothing

There’s nothing there

And I’ll dream here, only you

Coming in and out of focus

Black and blue

I’ve been senseless

Mercury on my hands

I’m defenseless

Against my id’s demands