Sister of Mercy lyrics
everybody shouts on I Love Lucy
Pee Wee reads the evening news
a pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi
everybody got a job to lose
here come the golden oldies
here come the Hizbollah
businessmen from South Miami
humming AOR

meanwhile...

I like Cal and his dog Napalm
I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb
everybody got one, I want mine
you can order it up on Channel Nine

meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on

there was a time but it's long gone
Janie got a crush on the Vietcong
burning through downtown Saigon
me I'm sold - down the Mekong

meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on

guns and cars and accidents
the threatened witness my defence
you can sell one another for fifteen cents
well bye-bye mother, it's common sense

meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on

everybody shouts on I Love Lucy
Pee Wee reads the evening news
a pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi
everybody got a job to lose
here come the golden oldies
here come the Hizbollah
businessmen from South Miami
humming AOR

meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on

I was listening to the Vision Thing tape in the car on the way to work this morning when it disturbed me that I know all the lyrics to this song and can sing along but still have no clue what it means. I had thought it was mostly nonsense that just sounded a bit like it had a deeper meaning but in the end meant nothing. However, I realized this morning that "Janie got a crush on the Vietcong" was probably referring to "Hanoi" Jane Fonda. Had I missed the deeper meaning.

Well, I was glad to find online that even knowing what some of the lines refers to, (Thanks to this site) Sisters of Mercy lyrics still are more poetic than full of crunchy meaning.