Ring Them Bells (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy)

Ring them bells, you hear then from the city that dreams

Ring them bells from the sanctuaries

'Cross the valleys and streams

For they're deep and they're wide and the world's on its side

And time is running backwards and so is the bride

Ring them bells St. Peter where the four winds blow

Ring them bells with an iron hand

So the people will know

Oh, it's rush hour now, on the wheel and the plow

And the sun is going down upon the sacred cow

Ring them bells, sweet Martha

For the poor man's son

Ring them bells so the world will know

That a God is one

Oh the shepherd is asleep, where the willows weep

And the mountains are filled with lost sheep

Oh, ring them bells for the blind and the deaf

Oh, ring them bells for all of us who are left

Oh, ring them bells for the chosen few

Who will judge the many when the game is through

Oh, ring them bells for the time that flies

For the child that cries when innocence dies

Ring them bells St. Catherine

From the top of the room

Ring them from the fortress for the lilies that bloom

Oh the lines are long and the fighting is strong

And they're breaking down the distance

Between right and wrong