Odds - Mercy to Go lyrics

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