MERCY 011 – The Long Hunger | The Mercy

Thrash Metal, Southern Rock, High Energy, Heavy

(Verse 2)
The fields went down unharvested beneath the winter rain,
While cattle broke the fences and the wind consumed the grain.
They learned that food was labour, seed, and hands that understood,
For plenty left untended could not keep a village good.

(Chorus)
The Long Hunger crossed the houses like a judgement made of cold,
It emptied every ration bin and hardened young and old.
The mercy of survival became hunger’s second law,
And every gate they fastened showed the winter what they saw.

(Verse 3)
They weighed the flour by candlelight and counted every share,
While children learned the silence of an almost empty chair.
The ration clerks kept ledgers where the weakest names were read,
And every smaller portion raised another fear of dead.

(Verse 4)
Some gates were opened freely when the starving reached the wall,
Some gates were closed by watchmen who had heard the winter call.
The Houses long remembered who had shared and who denied,
For hunger wrote its history in every child who cried.

(Bridge)
They found no feast in ruins where the frozen freezers stood,
No mercy in a loading bay without the hands for food.
The world had farms and markets, yet the living still grew thin,
For harvest was a covenant no scavenger could win.

(Outro)
So winter marked the survivors with a hunger slow and deep,
And taught them every promised store was something hands must keep.
They lived beside abundance while the old supply lines died,
And carried empty stomachs as the proof they had survived.

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(Verse 1) They stood beside full warehouses while tins began to spoil, And watched the empty tractors rust beside the waiting soil. The supermarkets held their shelves beneath a roof of frost, But every locked and useless store became another cost. (Verse 2) The fields went down unharvested beneath the winter rain, While cattle broke the fences and the wind consumed the grain. They learned that food was labour, seed, and hands that understood, For plenty left untended could not keep a village good. (Chorus) The Long Hunger crossed the houses like a judgement made of cold, It emptied every ration bin and hardened young and old. The mercy of survival became hunger’s second law, And every gate they fastened showed the winter what they saw. (Verse 3) They weighed the flour by candlelight and counted every share, While children learned the silence of an almost empty chair. The ration clerks kept ledgers where the weakest names were read, And every smaller portion raised another fear of dead. (Verse 4) Some gates were opened freely when the starving reached the wall, Some gates were closed by watchmen who had heard the winter call. The Houses long remembered who had shared and who denied, For hunger wrote its history in every child who cried. (Chorus) The Long Hunger crossed the houses like a judgement made of cold, It emptied every ration bin and hardened young and old. The mercy of survival became hunger’s second law, And every gate they fastened showed the winter what they saw. (Bridge) They found no feast in ruins where the frozen freezers stood, No mercy in a loading bay without the hands for food. The world had farms and markets, yet the living still grew thin, For harvest was a covenant no scavenger could win. (Outro) So winter marked the survivors with a hunger slow and deep, And taught them every promised store was something hands must keep. They lived beside abundance while the old supply lines died, And carried empty stomachs as the proof they had survived.

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