Premiere: Watch Boots' "Mercy" Video

A self-directed video from the elusive artist.

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The ever-elusive producer and singer/songwriter Jordy Asher aka Boots released his first track since releasing the WinterSpringSummerFall EP earlier this year. "Mercy" is a stunning, confident song that builds off of soft, shaky vocals over a slow-building melody that eventually crashes into an uncompromising climax for the last minute and a half of the track. Today, we're premiering his self-directed video for the song, that plays off of the same buildup.

For one of the first times, you'll see Boots in the flesh for the majority of the video. The video seems to portray him running away... from what looks to be a woman dressed in all white. As he runs, battered and bruised, she's able to catch up to him and they eventually collide. With lines like "Daggers in your eyes/Get the devil on the line/Shivers up my spine/I was lying every time" and an infectious repetition of "We're losing light," "Mercy" is a haunting, painful song about love, relationships, and the world coming to an end. 

Read the full lyrics below, and stay tuned for more new music from Boots.

"Tuck my gun in your waist

Suck your thumb, cry off your face

Cuz we're losing light

Yeah you're losing light


All my club-immortal dreams

All the hero worship; Kings and Queens are dead and gone

They're dead and gone


I'll be right there waiting

No, I won't


Shivers up a spine, no more lying every time

Daggers in your eyes, get the devil on the line

Shivers up my spine, I was lying every time

Daggers in your eyes, get that evil off my screen--off my toes


Tuck my gun into your waist

Suck your thumb, dry off your face

Cause we're losing light

We're losing light


Float your photo down the stream

Take a mercy shot at mercy me

A poet's dream;

The glowing seeds of grown disease


Cancel the future

Put it on hold

Stray from the similar thing, you've gotta sliver and sway

Long love lost


Shivers up my spine, I was lying every time

Daggers in your eyes, get the devil on the line"

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