Irvine511
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U2girl said:Despite the best B-side comment from Bono, it hasn't appeared on any singles yet - I'm thinking it will appear on (one of) the next album(s).
i think this is correct.
i loved Mercy, but mostly because it was so different -- especially in production. it was more low-fi, more flat, more of a headphones song, which would certainly not place it on HutDab. but i could sense, with a little more verve and a little more glossy production, another truly massive song along the lines of "bad" -- starts out in confessional mode, "i was drinking some wine/ then it turned to blood" that builds to what could be a massive, cathartic chorus. i think Mercy is a great, interesting song, but they sense the potential for it to be a great, massive song. and they're all about massive these days.
they'll either rework it, do a bit of a COBL job on it and it will be on the next album, or simply leave this song to be the stuff of legends.
i don't know which i'd prefer.