Recently I had the fortune to discover the incredible album that is Have Mercy’s “The Earth Pushed Back,” and it is captivating from start to finish. In a scene where bands get street cred and free streams for fitting a trendy sound and trolling on Twitter, it is gratifying, in a populist listener kind of way, to find a genre-spanning, East Coast indie alt-rock group such as this with emotive lyrics and longing-fused chord progressions. Traces of homage to pop punk/alt-rock of the past decade couple a sound more measured and mature, one that mimics the likes of American Football or early Copeland.
“I called you up, just where have you been
I’m just waiting for our lives to begin
No one wants you the way that I want you
When no one wants you
Can you say you want me too?
Why won’t she go home?
I have you on the other telephone?
Cause no one, no one can do the things you do
Say the three words that I just want you to
I need you
We laughed in the sun, we laid in the grass
I felt your earth pushing back, it pushed back
What you don’t know, don’t know
Is you’re gone and I’m home
But I’m all alone
For every body who knows what comes after
We laughed in the sun, we laid in the grass
I felt your earth pushing back, pushing back
What you don’t know, don’t know
Is you’re gone and I’m home
But I’m all alone
For everybody who sung from the rafters
I want you weak at the knees”
Have Mercy, The Earth Pushed Back
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