In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Mercy
When I melt in the kiss by the words and the whispers you sing me
Mercy
And I'm frail in the kill by submission and will that you bring me
Mercy
When I'm nothing but ego, you slap me to let go and sleep free
Now I sleep free
You're my toy box
You're my memories
When I smell your skin you just make my whole world weep
I'm at your feet
I'm at your feet
Mercy
When the grey turns to black and the wave's on my back, you make me smile
Mercy
Is the trauma no martyr you crush into pleasure and downtown
Mercy
It's the shining of you that just breaks me in two like a lifeline
You're my lifeline
I'm the idiot to your poetry
When you burn you bleach
Everything and all I need
Is at your feet
Is at your feet
Mercy
Are the licks and the lips of temptation, just tricks, not for playing?
Mercy
Are you the camera suck, gun slut to headphone fuck holes in my being
Mercy
Are you everything which put the sex into bitch, or just faking?
Do you fake it?
So I celebrate your chemistry
If you bond with me
I could make your whole world sweet
I'm on my knees
I'm on my knees
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
When I melt in the kiss by the words and the whispers you sing me
Mercy
And I'm frail in the kill by submission and will that you bring me
Mercy
When I'm nothing but ego, you slap me to let go and sleep free
Now I sleep free
You're my toy box
You're my memories
When I smell your skin you just make my whole world weep
I'm at your feet
I'm at your feet
Mercy
When the grey turns to black and the wave's on my back, you make me smile
Mercy
Is the trauma no martyr you crush into pleasure and downtown
Mercy
It's the shining of you that just breaks me in two like a lifeline
You're my lifeline
I'm the idiot to your poetry
When you burn you bleach
Everything and all I need
Is at your feet
Is at your feet
Mercy
Are the licks and the lips of temptation, just tricks, not for playing?
Mercy
Are you the camera suck, gun slut to headphone fuck holes in my being
Mercy
Are you everything which put the sex into bitch, or just faking?
Do you fake it?
So I celebrate your chemistry
If you bond with me
I could make your whole world sweet
I'm on my knees
I'm on my knees
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
Lyrics submitted by plasticwonder
Mercy Lyrics as written by Chris Corner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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