My heart's getting bigger   So I need a new pant size   When you're the tower of strength   People climb up your backside      So you don't stay that way too long   You're only temporarily strong      I've got mercy, mercy to go   I've got mercy, mercy to go   And then it's all gone      You don't swim up and grab a drowning man   'Cause he'll use you as a life raft if he can   It's better to hold a out a branch   Then the tree and then the whole ranch      'Cause I've got mercy, mercy to go   I've got mercy, mercy to go   I've got mercy, mercy to go   And then it's all gone      As I mature I learn to speak my mind   On the other hand I learn to be patient and let it ride   Between these two traits is a line   You step on it all of the time      Why do these things always happen to you?   I wish I had the time to let them swallow me too   When we count up all of our wounds   You're the desert, I'm one of the dunes      I never met a manipulator that wasn't paranoid   They see in themselves what in others they should avoid   All the devious plans aren't there   Ghosts fly out from under their hair      And I get to hear about it   And it comes in heavy waves   And I'm lying under your downer   With no breathing space      And I've still got mercy, mercy to go   And when it's all gone, I guess it's all gone