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 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 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