Don't you just hate the sweet smell of success
When every one night stand is a band-aid on loneliness
Dicing with death, enslaved in a trance
Since we're walking on thin ice then we might as well dance

You don't know how good it feels
When my heart breaks down and screams
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord

Don't you jack me up so I'm king for a day
Then you bring me down to my knees I'm saying
Hit the breaks I'm in a state of shock
Stop the world I want to get off

You don't know how good it feels
When my heart breaks down and screams
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord

When Thy kingdom come and Thy will be done
How can we look at our brother down the barrel of a gun
You see I'm living proof, ain't no truth in the lie
That I'm dying to live and I'm living to die

You don't know how good it feels
When my heart breaks down and screams
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord
Have mercy Lord, have mercy Lord