Mercy lyrics.

[Roland of Gilead]

Its "love hears when I lie." And the emphasis is that love has built in lie detector, so you can not lie to love. It is an excellent lyric!

Oh yeah, and that is the Edge singing that part too.

 

[ADecentMelody]

we're missing the big question

I don't buy the:

"I hear someone
Feel nothing
I hear someone
Fear nothing"

part... it doesn't sound like that at all


I just can hear that line and read this lines and think and assume that they are the same....
help

I agree. It's actually closer to:

I can hear so much
Feel nothing
I can hear so much
Feel nothing

Still don't think that's correct though.

 

[Zoomerang96]

this song should never have been a b-side.

anyway, isn't it "you wanted violence", not "violins"?

 

[ADecentMelody]

I agree with the Nero/Rome comment and hence:

You wanted violins, you got Nero

 

[Zoomerang96]

but nero was the most violent emperor of all time.

violence, nero, it makes sense together. violins and nero don't.

 

[ADecentMelody]

Look at the lyrics leading up to this line. They're not synonyms:

water - ice
one - zero
violins - nero

It's a bit tongue-in-cheek similar to The Sweetest Thing.

 

[whitehead]

we're missing the big question

I don't buy the:

"I hear someone
Feel nothing
I hear someone
Fear nothing"

part... it doesn't sound like that at all


I just can hear that line and read this lines and think and assume that they are the same....
help

Wow...gotta love Bono-ese!
I'm hearing:

"How can someone feel nothing?
How can someone fear nothing?"

I am totally stumped on the "I hear you tall/talk" part!

 

[shart1780]

It sounds to me like he's singing "love heals, and when I lie". I hear an "and" in there.

Also it sounds like he's singing "I hear you, toe". Maybe this song is about his toe.

 

[Jack In The Box]

about Nero's topic, I think is violence

 

[stargift]

i posted what i thought the lyrics might be last wed or thurs (whenever we first got the song). at that time i wasn't sure, and i'm still not. what i was going by was how lyricists rhyme certain lines. sometimes it's the first and second. sometimes even and then odd. that is why if he says ..someone elses luck that the previous rhyming line has to have 'rock' or something that rhymes with luck instead of rub. i'm not sure if it is 'hits' to rock or something similar. anyway here is my guess from last week.
MERCY
I was drinking some wine
and it turned to blood
whats the use of religion
if your any good
i know i'm weed killer honey
and you’re sugar
if you're the prosecution
I’d get away with murder
if you were ice
i'm water
and with your telescope
i can see further
we're binery code
a one and a zero
you wanted violins
and you got nero
you're gravity
searching for the ground
you’re silence
searching for a sound
your heart is aching
your heart is my home
its fascinating
i know i’ll never be alone
i’m ripping the stitches
we’ve got two hits to rock
I’m digging the ditches
of someone elses luck
love hears when i lie
love puts the blue back in my eye
love will come again
ill be gone again....again
if you hunger
baby let me feed it
if your heart is full
baby let me bleed it
and happiness is for
those who don’t really need it
you love me... too much
you always love me...too much
when I was ripping the stitches
we’ve got two hits to rock
i'm digging the ditchesof someone else’s luck
love hears when i lie
love puts the blue back in my eye
love has come again
i am gone again
loves got to be with the weak
only then love gets a chance to speak
love will come again
i'll be gone again...again
i...i can't escape myself
i hear you talk
feeling nothing
i fear nothing
fear...
i can hear so much
fear nothing
i can hear so much
fear... nothing
love has come again
i am gone again...
love is the end
of history
the enemy
of misery
love has come again
i am gone again
love is justice
a charity
love brings with it a clarity
love has come again
i'm alive again, alive
i am alive
baby i’m born again and again and again and again and again....again