Here’s a demo tape of a dark love song I wrote called “I Want to be Your Mercy”. This is a raw recording: one voice, one guitar, one take. It’s not shrink-wrapped or studio-perfected whatsoever. I hope you like it.
Techniques and ideas used in this song include: dronal music; internal rhyme; head rhyme; assonance; anaphora; parallel structure; fingerstyle guitar with thumbpick.
Shout out to Angela Ziegler.
I Want to Be Your Mercy
words and music by Nicholas Tozier
Verse One
I want to be
the taste on your tongue,
the name on your lips.
I want to give you
the torment you crave.
I want to be your Mercy.
I’m not gonna be good for you.
Verse Two
I want to be
the kick in your heels,
the swagger in your step.
I want to feel
the tremble in your knees.
I want to be your Mercy.
[SOLO]
Verse Three
The spider that weaves
its web above your bed
wrapping your writhing dreams tight…
I feel the buzz of some
little trapped fantasy.
I want to be your Mercy.