## Metadata
**Caption:** soul, socially conscious, jazzy, smooth groove, 100 BPM, male vocal
**BPM:** 60
**Duration:** 179.0s
**Key:** A major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Where the river used to run so clean and clear
Now it's carrying a color I fear
Where the sky was open, endless, painted blue
Now it's colored gray with smoke breaking through

[verse]
Ain't it a shame what we did to the land
Ain't it a shame we don't understand
That the earth beneath us is a living thing
And every wound we make will start to sting

[chorus]
Mercy, mercy, save the world we're standing on
Mercy, mercy, before it all is gone
We only got this one place to call our home
Mercy, mercy me, before the green is gone

[verse]
The birds don't sing the way they used to sing
The forest's quiet where the wild things used to ring
We can't keep taking without giving something back
Or one day soon we won't have nothing left

[chorus]
Mercy, mercy, save the world we're standing on
Mercy, mercy, before it all is gone
We only got this one place to call our home
Mercy, mercy me, before the green is gone

[bridge]
Wake up now before the well runs dry
Wake up now and hear the earth's own cry
It's not too late to turn it all around
If we plant the seeds and till the ground

[chorus]
Mercy, mercy, save the world we're standing on
Mercy, mercy, before it all is gone
We only got this one place to call our home
Mercy, mercy me, before the green is gone