Have mercy
Lyrics
who told you you could wear that dress and pin your hair up while it's wet and make a man feel like a little boy? who told you you could wear that face and smile like you own the place is that what they teach girls in illinois? mind where you lay down the length of your grace mind where you step you don't know your own strength how dare you lay waste to the hearts of the youth of my country who told you you could pick that fruit and dig your fingers into it and wind the brilliant peel off in one go who told you you could break the skin and rend it limb from limb until the dirt beneath ran red and wet with hope mind where you lay down the length of your grace mind where you step you don't know your own strength how dare you lay waste to the hearts of the youth of my country have mercy
Music
Chords
It's in B Major.
Structure
A B A B A' (Came during my economical phase.)
Author's Notes
I think this is the best song I've ever written. It's about how sometimes a girl can just utterly conquer a boy without even trying. I was feeling a little indignant about that phenomenon--this comes through less in the finished version, though the working title was "How Dare You".
For the record, I think this song is much more interesting when sung by a girl, as The Passerines perform it (we do a kind of a INXSed beats-backed palm-muted guitar chunk-along arrangement). With a girl singing, it adds a character to the situation; instead of a boy singing to a girl who's destroying him, it's a girl singing to another girl about a boy she cares about being destroyed by this other girl. This is much more interesting, in my opinion.
