She’s staying around or else she’s goin away It could be forever or it might be a day Or may be forever I call her a mercury girl She’s building me up & then she’s knocking me down Like a factory chimney in a northern town And I am demolished I call her a mercury girl She never sees me till the sun goes down Lives in a secret world Says: her career is in another town Life with a mercury girl One day once when I’ve got some time I try to hold her but she wouldn’t be mine She slipped through my fingers And I missed the mercury girl She came back to me with her mocking eyes She told me she loved me but it could have been lies And life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl Life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl One day once when I’ve got some time I try to hold her but she wouldn’t be mine She slipped through my fingers And I missed the mercury girl And life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl Life can be up & down, life with a mercury girl