Mercy (Commentary)

I have had such a great time talking to
Brett Young about his self-titled debut album, which is available now
This has been the album release special
And by the way, if you missed any of it
We will be replaying this special multiple times
Just check out bigmachineradio.com
We put all the air dates up there

But we do have one final song on the album to play, Mercy!
I understand that that's a song that kind of squeaked in at the 11th hour
And you've said it was a moment in the studio that you think will be like your version of Cam's Burning House

Yeah, you know, me and Dan Huff had talked forever
About wanting to have kind of that stripped down emotional moment on the record
And we always knew we wanted it to be Mercy
But we just didn't know what song to kick off the record to put Mercy on
And it was kind of the 11th hour where it was like, all right, let's not kick a song off
Let's add a song

And Dan's vision for that song was perfect
It's so stripped down because the emotion in that song is, I think the more you add to it
The more you take away from what you're saying in that song
And, you know, I think I've been through it
I know a lot of people that have been through it
I think a lot of people are going to relate to the kind of the message of we don't work
I know it's hard to let go

So it's easy to kind of hang around
But if we know that we don't work, I need you to leave me alone
I need you to let me go
And it's like, please have mercy
Like, if this is done, let it be quick
Let me be gone
And there are people that, you know, they don't even realize they're being selfish in a breakup
But because they're lonely, they keep like, admit

A text or a phone call, they keep poking their head back into that person's life
And it doesn't allow them to move on
And that's kind of the idea behind Mercy
I think, unfortunately, a lot of us have lived that scenario at some point
This is Mercy from Brett Young on Big Machine Radio