Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart Even though you don't mean to hurt me You keep tearing me apart I'm saying baby Please have mercy on me Take it easy on my heart Would you please have mercy on me And even though you got good intentions I

Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart Please have mercy on me Take it easy on my heart Even though you don't mean to hurt me You keep tearing me apart I'm saying baby Would you please have mercy on me I'm a puppet on your string And even though

But I already have love in LA It's so romantic in Paris Thought I was sure that I'd find it Won't even try to compare it If I ask that boy to jump, I know he would He don't even have to say, it's understood He treat me nice, he treat me right, he treat

It appears that we have reached the edge, that zenith where stimuli and comatose collide Forty years ago, the man proclaimed the age of the gross to be upon us, and even though the man was destroying our heritage and insulting our intelligence That era

Stand By Your Man, Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. You'll have bad times And he'll have good times, Doin' things that you don't understand. But if you love him you'll forgive him, even though he's hard to

We go fallin' off the wagon Got ourselves a real bad habit Girl, you got me actin' like an addict All messed up, no matter what You know I just gotta have it Even though it winds up tragic Tonight whatever happens, happens And tomorrow, we'll get back on

I undressed you with my eyes I have Maybe even raped you In a dark and eerie corner of my mind I tucked you there And touched you in a dream last night Pushed you aside when you entered My thoughts at the wrong time I have sat up upon your lap and

This is not the world we had in mind But we got time We are stuck on it so we can thrive But we can turn it And even though we might have lost tonight The skyline reminds us of a different time Take me back Back to the mountainside

I wish those days could come back once more Why did those days ever have to go Looking back on when I Was a little nappy headed boy Then my only worry Was for Christmas what would be my toy Even though we sometimes Would not get a thing We were happy

Sometimes I wake up crying at night And sometimes I scream out your name When for so long you were mine What right does she have to take your heart away I can't find a reason to let go Even though you've found a new love And she's what your dreams are