When I was just seventeen

I ran away from home

To be with all the pretty people

To be on my own.

Bright lights and trains and bedsit stains

And pavements paved with gold

And I believed in everything

That everybody told me...



Have mercy

Have mercy on me.



I found myself in a lonely place

With a suitcase full of dreams

And I soon grew up to realize

What living in the doghouse means.

But everyday I told myself

Good things gonna happen soon

'Cause I knew that I was going to be

A legend in my living room.



Have mercy

Have mercy on me.



(Welcome to this perfect world)



Now everyday on a dead end street

Is where I spend my time.

The dust has been collecting

On the corners of my mind.

But I've shed my tears in bitter drops

Until the thorn trees bloomed

To take the spiky fruit

To crown myself the Queen of doom.



Have mercy

Have mercy on me