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**kin' 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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