Leave me in Chains Strip me of shame Caress me with pain Cos I'm down on my knees And I'm begging you please as you say

Don't cry mercy There's too much pain to come Don't cry mercy M.E.R.C.Y

Fill me with rage Bleed me dry Feed me your hate In the echoing silence I shiver each time that you say

Don't cry mercy There's too much pain to come Don't cry mercy M.E.R.C.Y

Don't cry mercy There's too much pain to come Don't cry mercy M.E.R.C.Y

I dig 'til my shovel tells a secret,

Swear to the earth that I will keep it,

Brush off the dirt

And let my change of heart occur.

Sold soon after the appraisal,

The hammer struck the auction table

Louder than anything I've ever heard

Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house.

But I put it out of my mind

Long enough to call it courage

To live without a lifeline.

I bend the definition

Of faith to exonerate my blind eye

"'Til the sirens sound, I'm safe."

Meanwhile, my family's taking shelter

The sparks send the fire down the wire,

A countdown begins,

Until the dynamite gives in

The echo, as wide as the equator,

Travels through a world of built up anger-

Too late to pull itself together now

Fault lines tremble underneath our glass house

But I put it out of my mind

Long enough to call it courage

To live without a lifeline

I bend the definition

Of faith to exonerate my blind eye

"'Til the sirens sound, I'm safe."

There was an earthquake

There was an avalanche of change

We were so afraid,

We cried ourselves a hurricane

There were floods,

Tidal waves over us,

So we folded our hands and prayed

Like a domino,

These wildfires grow and grow

Until a brand new world takes shape

Fault lines tremble underneath our glass house

But I put it out of my mind

Long enough to call it courage

To live without a lifeline

I bend the definition

Of faith to exonerate my blind eye