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MOTHER MERCY
Words & Music by Judith Owen and Clifton Magness
© 1999 Dog on the Bed Music (ASCAP) and Blue Iron Gate Music/EMI April Music (ASCAP). All rights on behalf of Dog on the Bed Music controlled and administered by Songs of MAM (ASCAP).

Thank you,
for giving me the time to learn
I want to thank you
for letting me burn all those bridges
Let me thank you
for knowing that it wouldn't be my day

cause you may lose your mind,
and you may lose your way
but this is the pursuit of happiness

and mother mercy
hear your daughter
i'm a baby in the bull rush
I'm a fish out of water
don't you know that I've done denying
I'm crying with laughter so come on
smother me, mother me
cause love is what we're all after

So thank you
for letting me sink lower than I should have
Thank you
for knowing that the pain would do me good
thank you,
for knowing that I would be understood one day

cause you may lose your mind,
and you may lose your way
but this is the pursuit of happiness

and mother mercy
hear your daughter
i'm a baby in the bull rush
I'm a fish out of water
don't you know that I've done denying
I'm crying with laughter so come on
smother me, mother me
cause love is what we're all after