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"