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Mercy
Duffy Lyrics

(Hit the beat and take it to the verse now)

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I love you
But I gotta stay true
My morals got me on my knees

I'm begging, please, stop playing games

I don't know what this is
But you've got me good
Just like you knew you would
I don't know what you do
But you do it well
I'm under your spell

You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I said release me (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Now you think that I
Will be something on the side
But you got to understand
That I need a man
Who can take my hand, yes, I do

I don't know what this is
But you got me good
Just like you knew you would
I don't know what you do
But you do it well
I'm under your spell

You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
You got me begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I said you'd better release me (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm begging you for mercy
Just why won't you release me?
I'm begging you for mercy

You got me begging
You got me begging
You got me begging

Mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'm begging you for mercy (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Why won't you release me? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

You got me begging you for mercy, yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
I'm begging you for mercy (mercy, mercy, show me some mercy)
I'm begging you for mercy (show me some mercy, show me some mercy)
Why won't you release me? Yeah, yeah
Break it down
Mercy
Begging you for mercy
You got me begging
Down on my knees
I said
You got me begging
Begging you for mercy
You got me begging

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Aimee Ann Duffy, Stephen Andrew Booker

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Duffy told the Daily Mail that this retro-soul song, "is about the way my heart rate increases whenever I leave Wales to go to London." (Source Mercy Songfacts).

In Feb 2008 'Mercy' stormed to the top spot of the UK charts on download sales alone. This isn't the first taste of success for Welsh songstress Duffy, in 2003 she was runner up in Wawffactor (the Welsh alternative to Pop Idol) and in 2004 she was guest vocalist on electro duo Mint Royale's 3rd album.