From their debut full length record, "The Earth Pushed Back" available May 2013 through Topshelf Records. tsr-store.com/artist/have-mercy topshelfrecords.com Spotify: tpshlf.co/2ub1oaE
@@McBobtheruggaman thanks for the kind words. But we haven't spoken in a long time. She kind of just forgot about me and moved on. Nothing I can do I guess
Something you learn as you get older is that pain is inevitable. your heart will break and others hearts you too will break. It'll hurt. It will crush you. You will for but a time lose yourself and lose your will. Nothing will bring you joy. The light will be lost not only from your eyes but also from all that they perceive. you will cry, you will sob uncontrollably until you can't breathe while you drive home alone to no one. You will be lonely. You will cry into your hands down on your knees on the bathroom floor in the dark until your stomach hurts. You will hurt in a way you never have, in a way nothing else could ever hurt. To the point where you will succumb to numbness. and for all who have, for all who are, and for all that will experience this I extend my sincerest condolences. But after the hurt comes hope followed by healing. When all that's said and done you will start to move on. And you will have gained an understanding that was only attainable through immense heartache and you will grow. You will bloom and blossom into a more well rounded person. A softer person. A person with an understanding of what it means to love and how nothing cuts as deep as love can. And you will find love again. And you will treasure it. you will hold it in your hands as gently as you would a butterfly as not to crush it. And I cant wait for you to love again. Because you are loved. And love always comes back around. Through divorce, through parenthood, through homelessness and unemployment we may struggle but the light of love is why we endure. Why I endured. And I wish nothing but fortune upon you. To see you find what you thought was forever lost is my hopes and dreams. Stay strong . Believe in yourself. And if you can't "believe in the me that believes in you". Because I do. I believe in you. No one can replace the intricacies that are carved into your soul that make up who you are. And someone out there at this very moment is dreaming about loving someone who is wholly ,exactly, everything that you are.
We went to bed that night And dreamed of better things A god, a devil, and me And how you lost your wings I always wondered when you stopped loving me But I can't see clearly But I know that you know that I know that you don't really care Let's talk about your hair and how it's grown And how we know that we're not getting anywhere Nothing is what it seems Tell me about the man in your dreams And was it me? But I know that you know that I know that you don't really care Let's talk about your hair and how it's grown And how we know that we're not getting anywhere But I know that you know that I know that you don't really care Let's talk about your hair and how it's grown And how we know that we're not getting anywhere I went to bed that night And dreamed of better things A god, a devil, and me And how you lost your wings But I know that you know that I know that you don't really care Let's talk about your hair and how it's grown And how we know that we're not getting anywhere But I know that you know that I know that you don't really care Let's talk about your hair and how it's grown And how we know that we're not getting anywhere
+Macy Buerhaus Doesn't kind of feel like you're bonding with the song, like his emotions and feelings are yours when you hear and see the words, idk that's how I experience it
5 years ago, she showed me this song. 4 years ago, she left me for that one friend I shouldn't worry about. 2+ years ago, she disappeared from my life after saying she never would, no matter what the future holds. 1 year, that's all it took. 1 year to go from the happiest day of my life to thinking of how I should end it. And everyday since, I've wondered when this feeling would go away cause I can't think straight anymore. Fuck, I only wish we never met. Life would've been so different without you lying to me, hurting me. You have no idea, nor do you even care, how bad all of this made me. Because you're not the one stuck with those feelings 5 years later, right? I never trusted anything more than you. My trust was so strong, yet shattered into millions of pieces in a single blow. How can I trust anything else now? Every part of me doubts everything so hard that I can't get a grasp on reality. You said you liked your job because you helped people get better, but you never once thought of helping the one who had always been there for you. Now, my rotten brain wonders why I'm still here. So I make sure it keeps rotting, hoping I get brain damaged enough 'cause I don't want to remember that.. I died, 4 years ago.
I'm still here going thru the same thing but trust me I think about stuff most ppl shouldnt n I still see hope even tho there is nothing maybe sometimes everyone has to see nothing as well to make something out of nothing n see the value that lies between hope n reality maybe you will find you're self at open doors you just need to close some to make space for more to open trust in yourself n you will find purpose I know I have dont waste time you're time is now make the best of it
I’ve been in your exact same shoes before and know your same pain. I dated a guy for 3 years that left me for another girl he had barely met, so fast, just like that. Like I never meant a single thing to him after all the promises and saying he’d never leave no matter what. I know how horrible it is and it takes a long time to finally feel happiness again after something like that. That was 2 years ago and it still hurts to think about, but it’s nothing compared to the depressed state I used to be in. And there’s truly light at the end of the tunnel, believe me, you’ll find someone 100 times better that will see your worth and never leave your side. I know this because it happened to me. I have a new boyfriend now and he’s waaaay better than my ex and makes me wonder what I even saw in him in the first place. Better things will come your way!!
It wont always hurt,trust me I know.the depths are the darkest but the light will blind you when you get there and you will.and one day you will hear this song and smile and wonder what all the fuss was about. I'm sure you dont believe me right now but it will all be alright in the end.time is the only healer.
Even if there was someone better, how can you fix your trust issues? and sometimes there's no one new at all... people like to pink color life, like everybody is going to make. Some people will never make it.
i think this song is about knowing somebody never loved you in the first place. i think it's about not understanding how you can suddenly hate yourself i think it's about knowing you can never go home again.
You might not believe in a higher power but I always feel like that's a God thing. Life is pretty fucked sometimes and he always sends the right music and people when you need it most.
I remember Fall of 2017. I was 20 and in community college. I discovered Have Mercy and would blast their songs while I was driving to and from school. I remember that I had class Tuesday and Wednesday night from 6:00-9:00. I remember the lonely walk through the school campus and to the parking lot after each class, and then through the parking lot to find my car. I remember feeling lonely, lost, and depressed. I would text my best friend to pick me up a bottle of wine or something, then I would drive the half hour back home, but not before stopping at his house, pick it up, then drive five minutes up the street and then I would be home. I'd down that bottle of wine in my room by myself (the only illumination being from my Himalayan Salt Lamp, which eerily let off this dark orange hue around my room) while watching RU-vid videos and texting girls that wanted nothing to do with me, and then ending the night with Have Mercy; particularly this song.
2015 I found em and I was 17 in hs and met the girl I'm currently with and this songs lyrics are hitting too hard these days. Feels like we're just biding time.
I know this song is about a romantic relationship, but whenever I hear it I can’t help but think of the shit my dad put me through. I loved him and I looked up to him to the point where I thought he could do know wrong. He was my angel. But it fell to pieces. He betrayed me. I was going through family problems and when I asked for his help, he turned me down, insulted me, and supported the other person. “You’re not my son”. It was this that made me realise that he didn’t care, and that he probably never did if it was so easy for him to discard of his son. But I’m in a better place now. I’m doing better without them and I have become such a better person. My father failed me that day, but now I don’t care about him or what he did. I know the he knows that I know that he doesn’t really care about me.
I remember hearing this song live. I cried while shouting the lyrics, it was my first ever concert. I was 14 back then, now I'm 20. It's amazing how much a person can change but these songs will always stick with me. I wish I could relive that moment.
I used to harm myself to this song in middle school. I know how awful and unending the pain feels. You will get better, and you WILL survive. I believe in you. I love you 💖
Good luck man. I hope everything is still all well. I’m just going through the worst breakup of my life now myself. The woman I loved betrayed me. Years down the drain. I hope I can find the light. She meant everything and now it all means nothing.
This song hurts. I'm sorry if I wasn't enough before, I don't want to lose my best friend, my lover, the love of my life. Once you left, I knew that I'd as bitter as could be. You're happy now, without me. I just wish that maybe, just maybe I could be the man in your dreams. I miss you, my love..
Swindle's lyricism and Have Mercy's powerful music collide so well, and bring me to tears every time. I have them to thank for helping me get through an extremely tough and messy breakup. And the timing is so weird that the year I finally move on, entirely, is the year that their Farewell Tour is. Got my tickets for Denver on March 7th. What a legacy to bring to a close. I hope we will at least hear other projects in the future. My heart goes out to Have Mercy, and especially so because of the passing of Aaron Alt (Rest In Peace). I will always come back and listen to HM. They have a special place in my heart.
Coming to the comments always brings me so much comfort. I always think it’s a beautiful thing that a song can unify different people for a relatively similar reason or situation. I just got out of a six year relationship and boy does it sting. But I think trying to stay friends with that person stings way worse. But that’s just me. It’s rough. But life definitely doesn’t stop here. And if you’re someone who’s starting to feel that way, please realize that it really doesn’t. Time heals all wounds, grow at your own pace and never rush yourself. It’s the journey that’s beautiful. The destination can wait.
I hate that I went from your 2 AM phone calls to another mistake in an instant. I miss you so fucking much but you found someone better I guess. You made me happier than I'd ever been. You were my fucking world. At least I know how much I meant to you.
This song brings me to a place where I longed for what left & how she naturally just wandered and explored off into the distance. I fucking just love this. This used to make me feel so empty. But now days I feel so at peace when this song comes across
We used to love this song. . Now we relate to it. Three years became nothing but memories that feel like they were lifetimes ago. . I will always care.
I miss you Kaleigh, I remember the times that we use to sing this together and all the other musics, I don’t know if I will be able to find another girl with so many things in common like you. I know that you don’t love me anymore like I do but I only wish you good things, I hope that you will find someone that will make you truly happy
I hate you, I hate you so much for leaving so suddenly out of my life and abandoning me when I needed you most. I hate you for talking to her while we were still together I learned to hate myself because of it. I hate you because I don't hate you even though I know I should. It's been one whole fucking year later and you still roam my mind, but lets talk about your hair and how much it's grown.
Hey, you're great, and I hope you've found happiness. What someone else believes about you shouldn't determine how you see yourself. Nobody deserves that much power over you.
I'm so happy someone else connected with this song in that aspect. I fucking miss you babe. You were mine and i was yours. The time we invested is real and YOU cannot deny it. Was it me? FUCKING FEEL THIS SO MUCH
This song will always mean something. It's a feeling to me, it comes and goes about that one person we felt something for and how there's little reminders in the gaps between the months you don't talk that evolved into a year and how you don't talk at all now. That wasn't love that was just a lesson that it's okay to be young and think you know what love is. But I'm still young and I'm in love or "love" again waiting for it to go right or wrong. Because sometimes we all have to feel this and now I feel it again a ghost of someone I never should of loved or "loved"
It’s amazing how some songs impart huge feelings of loss and despair with such ease, something about this is so powerful... maybe the way his voice screams the pain that really brings up all the regrets inside me...
it was never your fault, just like you always made a point of declaring it wasn't mine. things just happen and, simple as it may seem, cycles start and end like everything that happens in nature. I just didn't want ours to end like this, I didn't want it to hurt us so much. you know where i am and always will be, i never needed to remind you of this because it is something you know, and even talk about your hair becomes interesting when i see that there is still authenticity in all the things you show me.
Yeah I really like this band. I discovered them yesterday and almost instantly I went and bought a gray press of their vinyl. I couldn't help myself. I was going to buy a citizen one but I guess I will do that next time because I had to have this in my collection.
"Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history."
I've known this song for many years and right now i totally relate to it. 5 minutes ago the person who broke my hearth and suddenly stopped loving me posted a photo, and I noticed how his hair had grown and immediately remembered of his song. idk I just feel stupid
I just stumbled upon this song and band for the first time ever a few minutes ago and I listened to the first twenty seconds of this song and immediately fell in love with this guy's voice, this is amazing.
my ex bf went to see the story so far 7 years ago. and these guys opened for them. i’ve listened to them ever since. 25 years old listening to them now to feel close to him bc he milled himself.
I'm late to the party but I fell in love with someone who turned out to not love me back or ever see herself loving me. I found this song a year later but it means a lot to me. I can't figure out if I'm happy that this happened or horrified and miss her beyond belief. You'd think the fact that I'm writing this would portend the former but it doesn't. I love her more often than I hate her. I hate it. I wish I hated her. She did some fucked up shit. What is wrong with me. I'm sure I'll listen to this song a year from now and I hope people are still commenting.. Take care of yourself friends, be gentle of your fuckups, they fucked up as well. Love.
I guess sometimes we just can’t let ourselves. We want to think we remember who they are. Or who they were in that time you spent together. And yes they may really suck. Or have sucked at times. Or suck currently. But we remember. A lot of the time it was just us and them. So it’s hard to. Here I am still hating and loving almost a year later , like you. It isn’t so bitter but I tried so hard to. I almost did. I tried to ruin myself and I could blame them for it. They never intentionally wronged me but it hurt because I remember their words and not much feels true anymore. Not the forevers or the “ I’ll remembers.” I feel you. Well the last couple of days I’ve been trying really hard to hate them again. It isn’t working and maybe that’s a good thing. I just feel like I’m tired of trying to. Some moments I can remember how horrible I felt then. It’s hard to hear you grieve like I. We try our best to make sense of things and often it lands on us. Nothings wrong with you. Maybe everything but you is wrong. Maybe it’s in the way the world feels without that comfort. Well , we learn to get it elsewhere. You’re right. Take care of yourself in these times, however you can. You deserve that much. I hope it’s been better since these 4 months you’ve been here. ❤️
I keep coming to this song clearly at least once per week. No more exes this time, just another girl I wanna to take part in my life. Thanks for being in my sleepless nights, Have Mercy.
Happy 5 years of being single, just wanted to give some love to this song for helping me through the toughest parts of life after she left, here's to many more years of blaming myself.
