She lives in a big white house

The rooms are lemon and she's devoted to life

of keeping this house just right, ooh, ooh

The weekends are perfectly nice ooh, ooh

And she doesn't talk when he comes home at night

Twenty five years she's just the same

She's a lonely woman, quiet in her ways

Then he comes home one night

She kills him with a knife

Now she's the one who's a living in paradise

(chorus)

(Sister of mercy) No sister of mercy

Oh don't cry for me

(sister of mercy) No sister of mercy

It's all alright for me

Now she sits in a big white chair

In a room that's not so different to the one back there

She turns her face to the light

But she is blinded by her life

You can hear her cry alone at night

(REPEAT CHORUS)

So have mercy on that woman you don't know the way it's been

You don't know the trouble her eyes have seen

Can you feel the kiss of life when you come home at night?

Well, you better not turn your back on a paradise

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)

Sister of mercy oh, oh

Sister of mercy (Sister of mercy)

Sister of mercy oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

(REPEAT CHORUS x 2)