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 & 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