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Mercury

by Small Miracles

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Mercury is an intense grunge track with a dark groove. The lyric is a critique of toxic masculinity and a condemnation of domestic violence, following the story of the damage a man can inflict on his family, addressing their socio-economic context and the cycle of violence that it creates.

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The point of no return.
Down the lanes behind your home.
Stir crazy youths litter the street
With smashed up glass and soiled sheets.

Do you know what you do when you call her name?
Do you even know how to play the game?
Does it make you into a big, strong man?
Leaf in the wind or a broken blade of grass.

Flashback to our troubled youth.
The boys in the corner eating tins of soup.
An angry man haunted by his youth.
A broken home broken by his boots.

Do you know how you sound when you try your tricks?
Do you ever have a clue what makes a woman tick?
So play those cards of beer, guilt and shame.
A full house of boys being boys, they'll say.

He's emotional, industrial, mercurial.

Daddy's home after a night on the booze.
Knots aren't important when they're tied up loose.
Forgotten mornings of violent crime.
Your team aren't the only ones that lost last night.

He's emotion, industrial, mercurial.
He takes his toll.

So pay your tax. Baby do the math.
Can you really afford to be like that?
There's a price to live and there's a cost to die
and a wage to keep your troubles piled up high.
So pay your credit on direct debit.
And sell your home with nothing in it.
And fill your tank with the blood diamond fuel.
And pay your bills and forget where to go.
And take your pills and forget what to do.
Forget your home and your life
and your parents and your wife
and your kids and your name
and your love and all your hate.

He's emotional, industrial, mercurial.
He takes his toll
It's educational. Simply insatiable.
Mercurial.
He takes his toll.
He takes his toll.
He takes his toll.

credits

released May 19, 2023
Drums, Vocal: Lucas Eldridge
Lead Guitar: Steve Kenward
Lead Vocals, Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar: Finn Pelling
Bass: James Sarson
Keyboards: Jim Webster

Engineered and Produced by Andrew Sanders at King's Road Studios

Label - Dirty Carrot Records
Cat # - DCR0009

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Small Miracles Cardiff, UK

Small Miracles are a band fuelled by the desire to challenge the status quo with their music. Based in Cardiff, their genre- bending sound draws from the intensity of Grunge and Post-Punk and the grooves of early New Wave and Disco, infused with an obsession for melody and hooks. ... more

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