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Mercy

from The Movement by Bastard Opera

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I'm sittin' here in a prison cell
the smell of shit on the walls like a rotten veil
and all I want is to bring you close
and wrap my arms around your neck

The only thing I remember
about the last time we made love
is that I fucked you good and that I fucked you right
but now you fucked me worse cuz now I'm fucked for life

My skull is breaking open
take a look inside my hell
you'll see a shell of my former self
I'm broken

My body's drenched in their disease
My mind no longer belongs to me

I got a scar on my head
and a needle in my eye
they're wrapping words around my head
and taking me for a ride.

cuz I'm a slave to the man
they're makin' money off me in the slam

Mercy, oh mercy

My skull is breaking open
take a look inside my hell
you'll see a shell of my former self
I'm broken

Marching to the beat of snapping bones
never thought I'd love the taste of blood in the back of my throat
but you fed me a daily dose, force fed me insanity
now I'm begging for the delicacy of a quick and painless

Mercy, oh mercy

My skull is breaking open
take a look inside my hell
you'll see a shell of my former self
I'm broken

Mercy, oh mercy

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from The Movement, track released December 17, 2011

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Formed in early 2011, Bastard Opera is a heavily harmony driven band, begun by Laurence Prophet of L.A. The four piece ensemble has dubbed its sound 'theatrical rock'.

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