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 realise what living in the doghouse
means
But everyday I told myself good things would 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