The Ballad Of The Little Man

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We're all at the mercy of the 7 deadly sins
We're all at the mercy of the elements in this world we're in
We're all at the mercy of each other's little whims
And we're all at the mercy of the little man within
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Show no mercy, no more mercy for this little man within
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We're all at the mercy of the little man within
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Hey mister how did you fit into the same shoes as him?
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No more mercy, no more mercy, show no mercy, no more mercy
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For the little man within

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He tears up all the countryside stops when he should begin
He drowns when he tries to walk on water but he never learns to swim
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He's an animal but he thinks he's God, gets him mixed up with him
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And we're all at the mercy of this little man within
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He was doing fine in 39, thank God he did not win
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He kept playing on his fiddle as he watched old Rome cave in
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He stole love away from his children's hearts and told them it was sin
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Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
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Of that little man within

           Am
Now he's sitting in the gardens as the acid rain comes in
He got a cupboard full of rhino heads and boots of leopard skin
He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy of the greedy man within

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So if you're feeling lonely, baby, if you're feeling blue
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If you listen to your little friend you know he'll tell you what to do
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But if you hear his words and you get confused
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Start believing they're all true then you have just been fooled again
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Who said we won't get fooled again? by the little man within

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He might recognize the great one he might understand what's good
But he believes that he can never live the way they say he should
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So he puts them in the asylum and he just throws away the key
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He keeps the deep freeze inside you
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He keeps the deep freeze inside you and he puts the hurt in me

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So show no mercy, no more mercy for the little man within
      D                        Am
We're all at the mercy of this little man within
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Hey sister, how did you fit into the same shoes as him?
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Show no mercy, show no mercy, show no more mercy, no more mercy
                   Am
For the little man within

Am
Gonna kill, kill the little man within
Gonna kill, kill the little man within
Gonna kill the little man within
We've got to kill, kill the little man within, kill
Gonna kill the little man within