No Mercy
PVRIS * Track #8 On All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
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Album All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
No Mercy by PVRIS
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PVRISProduced by
Blake HarnageWrited by
Blake Harnage & Lynn GunnAbout
“No Mercy” is about wanting to be set free from a relationship, but staying and watching it go up in flames and waiting for its inevitable end. Blood imagery is used throughout the song to signify the arguments the couple go through, juxtaposed by the purity of water.
Lynn revealed in an August 201...
No Mercy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We've made such a mess of this place
There's bloodstains on your face
Watch everybody kneel and pray
In vein, in her name
God, everybody’s sleepwalking
But they think they’re awake
And our hands are always covered in shame
But it won't wash away
[Pre-Chorus]
There's blood in the water, but it tastes so sweet
[Chorus]
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt)
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt, show me no—)
No, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
[Verse 2]
This place is going up in flames
And we watch and we wait (We wait)
And I think I kinda like the way it
It burns in my face
[Pre-Chorus]
There's blood in the water, but it tastes so sweet (Tastes so sweet)
The sky is on fire, let it rain on me
[Chorus]
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt)
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt, show me no—)
[Bridge]
There's blood in the water
There's blood in the water
Blood in the water, but it tastes so sweet (Oh-oh-oh)
There's blood in the water
There's blood in the water
Blood in the water, but it tastes so sweet
[Breakdown]
God, everybody’s sleepwalking, but they think they’re awake
And our hands always covered in shame, but it won’t wash away
(In flames)
[Chorus]
Show me no mercy
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt)
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
And let it rain, and let it rain
Show me no mercy
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt)
Show me no mercy (Hey, hey)
(This place is going up in flames)
And let it rain, and let it rain
(And we watch and we wait)
Show me no mercy
(And our hands always covered in shame)
And let it rain (If you're gonna make it hurt, show me no—)
No Mercy Q&A
Who wrote No Mercy's ?
No Mercy was written by Blake Harnage & Lynn Gunn.
Who produced No Mercy's ?
No Mercy was produced by Blake Harnage.
Could this song be less about a relationship and more political?
Somebody asked me if this was record was going to be political or if it was going to be anything to do with the current state of the world. It didn’t come from that initially and everything I wrote about was before Trump got elected and before things started hitting the fan, but I believe people wil...
What did PVRIS say about "No Mercy"?
When we went to write it, I didn’t know what it was about at the time. I remember us pulling up that one part in Macbeth where Lady Macbeth has blood on her hands and she can’t get it off. I was obsessed with that section of the play. We built around that lyrically, we loosely followed the idea of b...