Mercy

Album: Illuminate (2016)
Charted: 15 15
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Songfacts®:

  • Shawn Mendes sings on this brooding power ballad of a girl who has grabbed his heart. However, he is unsure if his feelings are reciprocated and the uncertainty is tearing him apart.
  • I'm a puppet on your string
    And even though you got good intentions
    I need you to set me free


    Shawn wants to be free from this girl's influence over his emotions. The use of a puppet to illustrate how one can be controlled by such intense feelings has been used in pop music since the 1960s when James & Bobby Purify admitted "Darling you've got full control of your puppet" and Elvis Presley described himself as helpless as "a puppet on a string." More recently Daya sung of not wanting to "be the puppet that you're playing on a string."
  • Shawn co-wrote the song with four other songwriters.

    Teddy Geiger and Danny Parker who previously co-penned and co-produced "Stitches" for Mendes along with Daniel "Daylight" Kyriakides.

    Ilsey Juber, who other credits include Major Lazer's "Powerful."

    Robin Weisse who also co-wrote Pitbull & Ne-Yo's "Time Of Our Lives."
  • The video was directed by Jay Martin ("Stitches") and filmed in Toronto. It shows Shawn struggling to escape a sinking car.

Comments: 1

  • Siahara Shyne Carter from United StatesIf you don't have Any feeling and your just using the person for your own ITS BETTER TO LEAVE Than faking a love with someone and
    Playing someone’s feelings is "Not Cool" Thats why I don't any boyfriend since birth heheh,,,,,,, Many wants to be with me but I NEVER GIVE IN lmao besides They are NOT MY TYPE :-D

    Let's just be friends.

    The right person will come in right time No need to hurry!
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