Love have mercy, yeah, on my soul   How many kisses, y'all, have I stole?   From other girls they didn't belong to me   That's why the payback is just misery, yeah      Love have mercy, y'all   Love have mercy on me now      Love have mercy, y'all, on my heart   For this young girl is just tearing it apart   It's got me weak, oh, don't ever let me go   'Cause I couldn't stand to reap, what I've sown now      Love have mercy, y'all   Love have mercy on me, yeah      This feeling, Lord, is killing me   All the things I did wasn't right   And now I'm just sittin' like a duck   Sittin' here on that dynamite, yeah   Now, somebody help me, comin' lose y'all      Love have mercy, yeah, on this man   All the wrong I did now I understand   I broke a lot of hearts before I got to her   And now this suffering, just like they were, tell me 'bout it      Love have mercy, yeah   Love have mercy on poor me      Love have mercy, yeah, got to tell you about it   You got me sufferin', Lord, just like they were   Don't make me suffer, don't make me, love have mercy on me   Don't make me suffer, no no no no no no      Love have mercy, mercy, mercy   Love have mercy, mercy, mercy   Love have mercy on me, no don't do it to me      You got me doin' the things, I don't want to do, y'all, yeah   You got me sufferin', just like the girls were, now, now   Sorry 'bout that, sorry 'bout that, sorry 'bout that, baby   Sorry 'bout that, sorry 'bout that, sorry for what I did to you, baby