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Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes has released "Mercy" on 18 August 2016. Co-writtten by Mendes, Ilsey Juber, Danny Parker and Teddy Geiger, "Mercy" is the second single from his second studio album, "Illuminate" (2016). The music video of the song was released on 21 September 2016 directed by Jay Martin, featuring Mendes singing in two different scenes, one with him drowning in a locked car in the sea while the other showing him performing the song with instruments.

On 3 December 2016, Mendes performed "Mercy" on Saturday Night Live and tweeted, "Never been so emotionally consumed in a song in my life. Thank you @nbcsnl. Thank you guys for getting me here." Personally speaking, it is an amazing song and I think Shawn Mendes has done a great job singing it! What do you think of "Mercy"? Do enjoy yourself watching the music video if you have not already done so and let me know your thoughts in the comment box below. Till then, au revoir!


Mercy lyrics

You've got a hold of me
Don't even know your power
I stand a hundred feet
But I fall when I'm around ya

Show me an open door
Then you go and slam it on me
I can't take anymore
I'm saying baby

Please have mercy on me
Take it easy on my heart
Even though you don't mean to hurt me
You keep tearing me apart
Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart
Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart

I'd drive through the night
Just to be near you baby
Heart open, testify
Tell me that I'm not crazy

I'm not asking for a lot
Just that you're honest with me
My pride is all I got
I'm saying baby

Please have mercy on me
Take it easy on my heart
Even though you don't mean to hurt me
You keep tearing me apart
Would you please have mercy on me
I'm a puppet on your strings
And even though you got good intentions
I need you to set me free
Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart
Would you please have mercy, mercy on my heart

Consuming all the air inside my lungs
Ripping all the skin from off my bones
I'm prepared to sacrifice my life
I would gladly do it twice
Consuming all the air inside my lungs
Ripping all the skin from off my bones
I'm prepared to sacrifice my life
I would gladly do it twice

Oh, please have mercy on me
Take it easy on my heart
Even though you don't mean to hurt me
You keep tearing me apart
Would you please have mercy on me
I'm a puppet on your string
And even though you got good intentions
I need you to set me free
I'm begging you for mercy, mercy (on my heart)
I'm begging you, begging you please baby
I'm begging you for mercy, mercy (on my heart)
Oh, I'm begging you, I'm begging you, yeah

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"Million Reasons" is another song from Lady Gaga's fifth album "Joanne" (2016). Besides, it is also the album's second single after the famous "Perfect Illusion". Written by Gaga, Hillary Lindsey and Mark Ronson, "Million Reasons" delves on  heartbreak and hope during a relationship. The song is back by only guitar and piano, not to mention Lady Gaga's powerful vocal! A little fact about her current "Joanna" album, it is actually named after Gaga's middle name (her birth name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) which is given to her as a tribute to her father's late sister.

I instantly fell in love with this song the first time I listened to it when it was released on 5 October 2016 on her YouTube channel. In addition, I like how Lady Gaga presented her self in  "Joanna" album, where she steps away from her usual bombastic attires and make-ups, and just be her true self. Her live performance of "Million Reasons" at the recent American Music Awards 2016 is as amazing as her lyrics video, if not better! What do you think about the song? Enjoy the lyric video as well as her perfomance below and let me know your opinions in the comment box. Till then, au revoir!



Million Reasons lyrics

You're giving me a million reasons to let you go
You're giving me a million reasons to quit the show
You're givin' me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

If I had a highway, I would run for the hills
If you could find a dry way, I'd forever be still
But you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one to stay

Head stuck in a cycle, I look off and I stare
It's like that I've stopped breathing, but completely aware
'Cause you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

And if you say something that you might even mean
It's hard to even fathom which parts I should believe
'Cause you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one to stay

Hey, ehh, ehh, eyy
Baby I'm bleedin', bleedin'
Stay, ehh, ehhy
Can't you give me what I'm needin', needin'
Every heartbreak makes it hard to keep the faith
But baby, I just need one good one
Good one, good one, good one, good one, good one

When I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one, good one
Tell me that you'll be the good one, good one
Baby, I just need one good one to stay