Mercy

Album: Rockferry (2008)
Charted: 1 27
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  • (Hit the beat and take it to the verse now)

    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    I love you
    But I gotta stay true
    My morals got me on my knees
    I'm begging, please, stop playing games

    I don't know what this is
    But you've got me good
    Just like you knew you would
    I don't know what you do
    But you do it well
    I'm under your spell

    You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
    You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
    I said release me (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

    Now you think that I
    Will be something on the side
    But you got to understand
    That I need a man
    Who can take my hand, yes, I do

    I don't know what this is
    But you got me good
    Just like you knew you would
    I don't know what you do
    But you do it well
    I'm under your spell

    You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
    You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
    I said you'd better release me (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    I'm begging you for mercy
    Just why won't you release me?
    I'm begging you for mercy

    You got me begging
    You got me begging
    You got me begging

    Mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
    I'm begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

    You got me begging you for mercy, yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
    I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
    I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
    I'm begging you for mercy (show me some mercy, show me some mercy)
    Why won't you release me? Yeah, yeah
    Break it down
    Mercy
    Begging you for mercy
    You got me begging
    Down on my knees
    I said
    You got me begging
    Begging you for mercy
    You got me begging Writer/s: Aimee Ann Duffy, Stephen Andrew Booker
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Anders Kraft from StockholmThis song is originally sung by someone else before Duffy was born I know because I herd it a long time ago.
    I'm sorry I can't remember the artist :(
  • Niki from ..., OnWhen I first heard this song I really didn't like it... when it came on the radio it annoyed me... but it's not that bad I guess
  • Josephine from Bochum, Germanythe beginng is like "stand by me"
  • Helen from Lincolnshire, United Kingdomthe song murcy,by duffy,i know she says she wrote it but it sounds like a song that was released ither in the 40s 50s or even the 60s.could you look into it because i heard it before and even new the words the first time it was played on the radio,could you get back to me on this ,helen
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