Peterrrrr said:
If someone else here are going to be outside the studio, please tell them to release Mercy just as it is
I'm a little worried that it's a bit too late for that now.
The track was leaked about three years ago, and since then fans have spoke to The Edge and Bono about it.
Edge said according to a fan in Melbourne during the shooting of the first Window In The Skies video that they were still working on it (which probably means rearrange it and making it different in some way). Then came the summer holidays when we got the '06 beach clips, it's possible that they have worked on the song in their studio in France without letting the people on the beach hear any of it.
Bono said to Italian fans outside Hanover Quay in May that Mercy is going to be on the next album. That was quite possible one of the Dublin sessions they had since Daniel Lanois was also spotted.
Then they've had the Fez Sessions where they came up with lots of stuff and I don't doubt that Mercy would have been worked on if they really expect it to be on the next studio album.
The six musicians - or perhaps the band on it's own, but Lanois says they have been working three times together so far - have also been heard working in France this summer, however no recordings have surfaced yet.
Now there's a month until their next regrouping together and the band is already writing on their own as well.
I'm just saying that a lot of time has passed since they recorded that song which at the time was probably more than a demo since it was considered to be put on the last album. And I'm sure that if what they say is true, and if they want the next album to be a departure from the sound of the last two records then they might have to tweak it a little bit. I love it the way it is, but it's also exciting to imagine what U2 could bring out of the track with the help of their best collaborators in my opinion.
That being said, my hopes are very high about this next album.