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Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You

Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You

Year: 1990
Duration: 5:57
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[00:19.52] Oh, oh mercy, mercy me
[00:26.47] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[00:29.22] No, no
[00:31.04] Where did all the blue skies go?
[00:34.84] Poison is the wind
[00:36.38] That blows from the north, west, south and east
[00:40.86] Oh, oh mercy, mercy me
[00:45.69] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[00:48.74] No, no
[00:50.69] Oil wasted on the oceans and our seas
[00:54.87] Oh, Fish full of mercury
[00:57.88] Oh, oh mercy, mercy me
[01:04.98] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[01:07.91] No, no
[01:10.14] Radiation underground and in the sky
[01:14.07] Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
[01:18.86] Oh, oh mercy, mercy me
[01:24.36] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[01:30.51] What about this over-crowded land
[01:34.24] How much more abuse from man can she stand?
[01:38.22] 
[01:56.42] I want you
[01:57.98] And I want you
[01:58.81] The right way
[02:01.46] I want you
[02:03.58] But I want you to want me too (want me too)
[02:09.04] Want you to want me baby
[02:13.99] Just like I want you
[02:20.35] Oh, I'll give you all the love
[02:26.06] You want to return sweet darlin'
[02:31.12] Your happiness is all I crave
[02:38.68] Ooh, it's too bad - it's just too sad
[02:44.37] You don't want me now
[02:49.99] But I'm gonna change
[02:52.31] Your mind someway, somehow, baby
[02:59.31] I want you
[03:01.72] The right way
[03:04.19] I want you
[03:06.47] But I want you to want me too
[03:11.83] I want you to want me, baby
[03:16.73] Just like I want you, ooh
[03:25.16] A one way love is just the fantasy
[03:31.01] Oh, sugar
[03:35.32] To share is precious pure and fair, ooh
[03:44.94] Don't play with something
[03:48.01] You should cherish for your life, baby
[03:54.05] Don't you want to care?
[03:58.32] Lonely
[04:00.47] I'm there
[04:02.72] I want you
[04:03.81] 
[04:12.14] Oh, oh mercy, mercy me
[04:19.03] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[04:21.83] No, no
[04:23.81] Where did all the blue skies go?
[04:27.55] Poison is the wind
[04:29.29] That blows from the north, west, south and east
[04:33.40] Oh, mercy, mercy me
[04:38.48] Oh, things ain't what they used to be
[04:44.49] What about this over-crowded land
[04:48.16] How much more abuse from man can she stand?
[04:51.80] 
[05:00.74] I want you (I want you)
[05:03.39] The right way (I want you)
[05:05.45] I want you
[05:07.91] But I want you to want me too
[05:13.20] Want you to want me baby
[05:18.05] Just like I want you, ooh
[05:24.73] I want you
[05:27.12] The right way
[05:29.54] I want you
[05:31.98] But I want you to want me too
[05:37.35] Want you to want me baby
[05:42.69] Just like I want you, ooh
[05:46.95] Aah
[05:48.75] 

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Robert Palmer

About Robert Palmer

🇬🇧United Kingdom·rock, 80s
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance, and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. His 1986 single "Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s". Having begun in the music industry in the 1960s, Palmer had a spell with Vinegar Joe in the 1970s and then found success in the...
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