Been a long time on this road
There was a stage when I believed it
Now the signs are pointing nowhere
I'm not sure I can receive it
If there's a message on that tree
If there's mercy there for me
Please help me to confess my sins
I've got a burden and it's hurting me
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Have mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy me
Have mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy me
I've got nothing left to say
And I lost my f*ckin' way
Have mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy me
I was born in blood and darkness
On the bad side of the street
My family, you were renegades
That couldn't hear the different beat
There's a door which says salvation
And a passageway to hell
But I've got no one to rely on
No one to wish me well
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Will you help me to return to you?
Will you receive me as your own?
Will you set aside my sorrow?
Can you see that I'm alone?
Is there a way I can repay
All the ugly things I've done?
Is there another way to live
Beneath this dying, dying sun?
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