mercy on the backslider

take all your mistakes

put them in a basket

drive up the mountain

and throw them off the cliff

tell your conscience

anything you ask it

tell it that you know

there's something better than this

and when the road is rocky

and you want to be someone else

have a little mercy on the backslider

have a little mercy on yourself

you've done all you could

with what you had

so ignore that voice of failure

that lives inside of you

sometimes your mind can treat you

awful bad

that's when you need

the best that you can do

and when the critics attack you

until you feel like hell

have a little mercy on the backslider

have a little mercy on yourself