If you could just imagine a bird without a song Fallen to the barren earth, wounded, left alone And then with just a motion of the kind and loving hand A broken wing is mended, the song restored again The word is mercy The word is mercy Nothing else describes what He did for me On a hill called Calvary He cast in the sea all I used to be The word is mercy No poet's pen could ever write the pain one heart can feel Of trying to be worthy, knowing you never will No dreamer's word could quite describe the beauty in that tree Where Jesus showed that God is great So I don't have to be The word is mercy The word is mercy Nothing else describes what He did for me On a hill called Calvary He cast in the sea all I used to be The word is mercy On a hill called Calvary He cast in the sea all I used to be The word is mercy