Lyrics by @coolkidjunji sung by my Persona Meredith I have really fun with this đ„đđ€ --- [Verse 1] I gave you mercy the way some people breatheâ automatic, involuntary, dangerous when interrupted. You held it like a secret you were certain Iâd confess, a quiet kind of pressure you mistook for tenderness. [Instrumental I â âHeld Breathâ] A low, trembling hum. Air tightening around the edges of the room. Something waiting to move, but choosing not to. [Chorus] Mercy isnât gentle, it never learns to stay. It circles when Iâm breathing, then steals the breath away. [Verse 2] You traced my mercy like a fault line in the darkâ testing where it trembled, memorizing every spark. You said it wasnât weakness, just a habit I outgrew, but habits have a hunger and mine kept turning back to you. A pulse, steady but wrong. Soft echoes folding into each other. The sense of footsteps that never quite arrive. [Instrumental II â âThe Habit Returnsâ] [Bridge] You say that mercy lingers, but it never felt like mine. It waits between my heartbeats, counting every missed sign. And every time you call me, something in me bendsâ mercy was the warning I kept trying to defend. [Chorus] Mercy isnât gentle, it never learns to stay. It circles when Iâm breathing, then steals the breath away.
