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Counting Crows

Mercy

Release date: 10th April 2012

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"Mercy" is a track by Counting Crows, from the album Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation), released 10th April 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Mercy

I got a feeling of unrighteousness

Bitter cold and hollow bitterness

Down the road

I walk with loneliness

Mercy will follow me, I'm told

My sister sang a song so sweet and sad

About a man whose love I never had

There's a train bound for Gillian

And mercy will follow me, I'm told

Mercy, will you follow me?

Mercy, will you follow me?

Til my final breath at last I take

Mercy, will you follow me?

Mercy, will you follow me?

Til the chains of this old world I finally break

Under this skin

There lies a heart of stone

That's growing old so very far from home

But a heart of gold I may one day own

And mercy will follow me, I'm told

Mercy, will you follow me?

Mercy, will you follow me?

Til my final breath at last I take

Mercy, will you follow me?

Mercy, will you follow me?

Til the chains of this old world I finally break

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From Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)

2012
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Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)
Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)
Counting Crows
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2012
  1. —Coming Around
  2. —Mercy
  3. —Borderline
  4. —You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
  5. —Hospital
  6. —Girl from the North Country
  7. —Four White Stallions
  8. —Untitled (Love Song)
  9. —Start Again
  10. —Like Teenage Gravity
  11. —Jumping Jesus
  12. —Return of the Grievous Angel
  13. —The Ballad of El Goodo
  14. —Meet on the Ledge
  15. —Ooh La La
  16. —All My Failures
  17. —Amie
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Writer
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