She lives in a big white house   The rooms are lemon and she's devoted to life   of keeping his 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)