No Mercy for the Lost Ones (Extended 2)

Intro

Early morning breaks through, smoke and concrete chill

City groans to wake up, another day to kill

Windows lined with raindrops, street’s a broken stage

Kids curl on cardboard islands, faces etched with rage

Verse 1

Turn my collar to the wind, harsh December bite

Snow’s a stranger in these alleys, neon’s faded light

Heavy boots keep pounding, heavy hearts ignored

Little hands reach through silence, every hope outscored

Pre-Chorus

Ain’t no saviors rolling down this crooked line

Every soul’s a number, love gets left behind

Chorus

Tired of looking out my window, seeing children on the streets

Eyes all dazed and hungry, shoes worn thin beneath their feet

Begging for a little mercy, reaching up for a sign

Cold world spinning wicked, turning love into a crime

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Verse 2

In the frost of this winter, city breathes out its lies

Frozen hands in their pockets, searching faces, empty eyes

Lost ones screaming, who gives a damn, nobody claims them kin

Crowds just acting blind again, letting the darkness win

Pre-Chorus

People walk around them, like they're made of disease

Cold-hearted perps in silence passing by with such ease

Chorus

Tired of looking out my window, seeing children on the streets

Eyes all dazed and hungry, shoes worn thin beneath their feet

Begging for a little mercy, reaching up for a sign

Cold world spinning wicked, turning love into a crime

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Guitar Solo

Bridge

Somebody tell me where the hope went, buried out of sight

Hearts locked behind misery and fences made of pride

Lost dreams scattered on sidewalks, trampled under the night

If we can’t look them in the eye, what’s left of what’s right?

Chorus

Tired of looking out my window, seeing children on the streets

Eyes all dazed and hungry, shoes worn thin beneath their feet

Begging for a little mercy, reaching up for a sign

Cold world spinning wicked, turning love into a crime

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Verse 3

Footsteps vanish in the puddles, but the shadows always stay

Every sidewalk story’s bitter, stares just turn away

I hear hunger in the silence, loss runs through their veins

Truth drips like falling raindrops, washing down the drain

Pre-Chorus

We build our walls of comfort, stack them mile high

Turn faces from the suffering, pretend we don’t hear the cry

Chorus

Tired of looking out my window, seeing children on the streets

Eyes all dazed and hungry, shoes worn thin beneath their feet

Begging for a little mercy, reaching up for a sign

Cold world spinning wicked, turning love into a crime

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Verse 4

Light a match for memory, flicker dying on the glass

Promises from the hopeful, but the comfort never lasts

Blue sirens in the distance, nobody slows to see

Heartbeats hiding hunger, this pain ain’t letting me be

Pre-Chorus

We bargain with indifference, curse it as it grows

Pavement’s cold reminder of what nobody knows

Chorus

Tired of looking out my window, seeing children on the streets

Eyes all dazed and hungry, shoes worn thin beneath their feet

Begging for a little mercy, reaching up for a sign

Cold world spinning wicked, turning love into a crime

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Oh-oh, lost and alone

Oh-oh, shivering bones

Outro

Steel-gray mornings rising, but compassion never wakes

Dreams freeze in alley corners, kindness cracks and breaks

How many will be scattered before anyone feels shame?

Same hands pocket comfort, but they won’t say a name

Final Chorus

Can’t take another sunrise, looking out and seeing pain

Tired hearts keep turning cold, nothing seems to change

Outcasts call for shelter, swallowed by the stone

I’m haunted by the silence, can’t let it go unknown

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, lost and ignored

Oh-oh, hunger’s reward

Oh-oh, lost and ignored

Oh-oh, hunger’s reward