Mendes Mercy: Submitting To The Woman To Be Happy
July 15 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
Shawn Mendes (Courtesy:Billboard)
“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
― Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd".
Reading this Thomas Hardy quotation immediately raises a question about man and love and his condition in love affairs. It is understandable that every one , men and women, need love. But the man is the one who makes the quest, who approaches the woman and the woman is thus in advantageous position to accept or reject the man's advances.
Shawn Mendes is one singer among many, who seem to have studied the man's position in search of love and the pain the man goes through in expression of his feelings and situation to the unwilling woman. Listen to Mendes "Mercy", and you will get the message about the pain for the man. In Mendes "Mercy' the man becomes helpless and all he wants from her is mercy.
"You've got a hold of me, Don't even know your power, I stand a hundred feet, But I fall when I'm around you". The man says that the woman has got a hold on him! Does that remind you the first time you fall in love as a man and you are seemingly at the mercy of the woman of your choice? Is it true that the woman does not know her power over the man?
In expressing the man's perplexity before the woman, Mendes mistakens the woman as being unaware of her power! But he knows the hurt a rejection means for the man, either in the beginning of an affair or along the journey into space. He is thus forced to explain the trouble of driving through the night to be by her and wonders if he is not crazy
The woman may not have hurtful intention, but she keeps tearing him apart anyway.
Lines 1-8 of stanza seven of Mendes song is the climax of the man's experience in the bid to make the woman reason with him. "Consuming all the air inside my lungs. Ripping all the skin from off my bones, I'm prepared to sacrifice my life, I would gladly do it twice. Consuming all the air inside my lungs. Ripping all the skin from off my bones. I'm prepared to sacrifice my life. I would gladly do it twice."
Mendes sings with intense power, his video showing him under the water and scattering his instruments to show the confusion a man in unrequited love undergoes. It is equivalent to asphyxiation. Bringing to focus, the situation of the man alone in the Garden of Eden before God reportedly took a bone from his ribs and created the woman, to be with the man as a helper.
The physical experience between the man and the woman over the ages has led to a question about the type of help the woman is supposed to give to the man. The man and the woman are in the garden alone and they are asked to eat some fruits, but some certain fruits they cannot eat, because the day they eat the fruit in middle of the garden, their eyes will be open. The serpent appears in the picture and tells the woman that they can eat the fruit!
The man has his own fruit under him and the woman has her own under her. But the man's fruit needs the woman's fruit for him to be fulfilled. If his fruit has not tasted or has the woman's fruit, perplexity and insanity grip him. He is thus compelled to have the woman's fruit to be happy or his life will be miserable.Various experiences that have been expressed by some men have shown some men are lucky to fall into the hand of virtuous women who are merciful, and the men's experience is like icing on sugar. While some other men have shown they are in relationships equivalent of being married to trouble, real trouble.
Esdras words as used by Thomas Hardy in "Jude The Obscure" is relevant here, "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?" The irony is that Adam submitted to Eve, according to the scriptures and his life resultantly screwed up , following the curse, which accompanied his submission to Eve.
Mendes "Mercy" demonstrates the same feelings, just as some of his other songs like "Stitches", "Treat You better", "Know What You Did" and "There is Nothing Holding Me Back", all centered on the 'conflict' between the two sexes. The conflict conflict has existed from the beginning of creation, and the man seems to have been the worst for it. The only punishment to the woman is that in pain she conceives and brings forth children.
― Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd".
Reading this Thomas Hardy quotation immediately raises a question about man and love and his condition in love affairs. It is understandable that every one , men and women, need love. But the man is the one who makes the quest, who approaches the woman and the woman is thus in advantageous position to accept or reject the man's advances.
Shawn Mendes is one singer among many, who seem to have studied the man's position in search of love and the pain the man goes through in expression of his feelings and situation to the unwilling woman. Listen to Mendes "Mercy", and you will get the message about the pain for the man. In Mendes "Mercy' the man becomes helpless and all he wants from her is mercy.
"You've got a hold of me, Don't even know your power, I stand a hundred feet, But I fall when I'm around you". The man says that the woman has got a hold on him! Does that remind you the first time you fall in love as a man and you are seemingly at the mercy of the woman of your choice? Is it true that the woman does not know her power over the man?
In expressing the man's perplexity before the woman, Mendes mistakens the woman as being unaware of her power! But he knows the hurt a rejection means for the man, either in the beginning of an affair or along the journey into space. He is thus forced to explain the trouble of driving through the night to be by her and wonders if he is not crazy
The woman may not have hurtful intention, but she keeps tearing him apart anyway.
Lines 1-8 of stanza seven of Mendes song is the climax of the man's experience in the bid to make the woman reason with him. "Consuming all the air inside my lungs. Ripping all the skin from off my bones, I'm prepared to sacrifice my life, I would gladly do it twice. Consuming all the air inside my lungs. Ripping all the skin from off my bones. I'm prepared to sacrifice my life. I would gladly do it twice."
Mendes sings with intense power, his video showing him under the water and scattering his instruments to show the confusion a man in unrequited love undergoes. It is equivalent to asphyxiation. Bringing to focus, the situation of the man alone in the Garden of Eden before God reportedly took a bone from his ribs and created the woman, to be with the man as a helper.
The physical experience between the man and the woman over the ages has led to a question about the type of help the woman is supposed to give to the man. The man and the woman are in the garden alone and they are asked to eat some fruits, but some certain fruits they cannot eat, because the day they eat the fruit in middle of the garden, their eyes will be open. The serpent appears in the picture and tells the woman that they can eat the fruit!
The man has his own fruit under him and the woman has her own under her. But the man's fruit needs the woman's fruit for him to be fulfilled. If his fruit has not tasted or has the woman's fruit, perplexity and insanity grip him. He is thus compelled to have the woman's fruit to be happy or his life will be miserable.Various experiences that have been expressed by some men have shown some men are lucky to fall into the hand of virtuous women who are merciful, and the men's experience is like icing on sugar. While some other men have shown they are in relationships equivalent of being married to trouble, real trouble.
Esdras words as used by Thomas Hardy in "Jude The Obscure" is relevant here, "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?" The irony is that Adam submitted to Eve, according to the scriptures and his life resultantly screwed up , following the curse, which accompanied his submission to Eve.
Mendes "Mercy" demonstrates the same feelings, just as some of his other songs like "Stitches", "Treat You better", "Know What You Did" and "There is Nothing Holding Me Back", all centered on the 'conflict' between the two sexes. The conflict conflict has existed from the beginning of creation, and the man seems to have been the worst for it. The only punishment to the woman is that in pain she conceives and brings forth children.
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