Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"'Mercy' is probably one of my favorite songs, and it was one of the first ones I wrote. I was looking for inspiration, and one inspiration for me is rhythm. I was working with a guy named Jon Taylor-not the Duran Duran guy. I said, 'Dude, can you put me some rhythms together? I want to write while I go to Europe .' So he made some rhythm loops for me, and on one loop he put this little guitar riff and he sang, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay.' That was all he sang, just those two lines. I'm digging the groove, and [bad word] in every now and then, singing, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay,' and I started singing around it. His voice was just so relaxed, so laid back, and I wrote this [bad word] all around it. All of a sudden someone else is singing the hook, the [bad word] 

"I worked on it with the band at the time, and James Harrah and Mark Browne would sing, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay.' I even brought David Crosby down, but it didn't quite fit his voice. Then C.J. Vanston [who played bass and keyboards on the album] brought this girl in to sing backgrounds, which I never do. Her name is Bernie Barlow and I love the way her voice sounded. I thought, 'Oh, that's y, it feels good.'" - Melissa Etheridge

Well I have lived ten years plus ten
And ten and ten again
I have seen too much to pretend
Then you wanted [bad word] in
I have survived all of the lies
They made me wise
The locks and walls and the peace it buys
Still when I look into your eyes
It's a surprise when you say

It's gonna be all right
It's gonna be okay
Just hold on tight
Let it all go away

Oh mercy mercy baby
What do you want from me

Well I plead mercy mercy baby
I do not know what this all means
It's been awhile since I been stylin'
In just my jacket and my jeans
It hurts to walk it hurts to talk
It hurts to think about it
Shout about it
Could I be sure without a doubt
That you could never live without me

I want to fall in you crawl in you
Surrender all in you now
Could I be sure in you pure in you
Finding the cure in you
Now I plead have mercy on me

Now I am kneeling at the alter
In the temple of your eyes
And I am asking for a miracle
I have been too long paralyzed
When you say get up and stand up
And climb the rope of hope
And open up again
Oh the peace you say is promised me
Seems too much [bad word]