Mercy

Your mama came running out of the house
 A wild look in her eyes
 The trail went all the way down the block
 'Till she sat right down and cried
 Curtains swaying in every window
 Cracked Venetian blinds
 Yeah, it could be any one of us
 With a broken mind
 Yeah, it could be any one of us
 With a broken mind
 Then I learned about mercy
 I learned about mercy
 For everyone else and for myself
 I learned about mercy
 Yeah, I was just a kid then
 Skinnin' my knees in Blueberry Hills
 Tried to make a little sense
 But my heart got crushed when the cat got killed
 Was a mean man down the block
 With his keep out sign and his poisoned milk
 How I learned to keep the door locked
 The thought of it still gives me chills
 Then I learned about darkness
 I learned about darkness
 Baby like sick, give me a kiss
 I learned about darkness
 Sometimes I don't know how to be
 How to shut my mouth, how to let things breathe
 And it gets so hard to see with my history standing in front of me
 Oh, whoa
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 I always fought with my sisters
 One knuckle of nonsense, hands full of blisters
 We felt like strangers
 And they still do now and sometimes they're saviors
 Sometimes they're saviors
 And I learned about changing
 I learned about changing
 You win some, you lose
 Cry about things that used to be fun
 But you're changing
 Yeah, we're changing
 We're changing