“A Quality of Mercy” is loosely based on the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in 2015 and the Australian public’s reaction. Andrew and Myuran were both Australian citizens who were executed by firing squad in Indonesia for drug trafficking charges. Many members of the public felt the pu...
[Verse 1]
Guess what, it's pretty unfair
They're gonna give me the electric chair
I thought that someone would've changed their mind
But seems I've got about an hour's time to be
Staring at the ceiling, feeling numb
I'm thinking about the readers of the Herald Sun
Who say that I am evil, they say, "Hurry up, get on with it"
You get what you get, what you get, what you get
[Verse 2]
Beth Miller from Malvern writes:
"This execution doesn't make things right!"
She'd rather see me drawn and quartered
After a bout of Chinese water torture
She says, "Everybody is so PC
If drugs make you suffer, then so should we"
Well, if I had but one request
I'd invite Beth to pull the switch
She should get what she gets, what she gets
What she wants to get
[Chorus]
I imagine two one-eyed men
Who, after the argument
Saw a little bit less of each other
They must have stumbled home
Proud of themselves
Half-dead
[Verse 3]
And guess what? I'm going to die
I thought it over, I don't know why
We never even met before
But you want first dibs at my corpse
Oh well, if it makes you feel better
You can open me up
You can dig forever
You won't find what you're looking for
There's no evil in me
There's no evil in me
There was never any evil in me
There's no evil
A Quality of Mercy was written by Marc Nolte & Reuben Bloxham & Angus Bell & Romy Vager.
A Quality of Mercy was produced by Angus Bell.
RVG released A Quality of Mercy on Mon Oct 16 2017.