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title: "Mercury must be in retrograde"
date: 2012-07-11T12:00:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2012/07/11/mercury-must-be-in-retrograde/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [mercury, music, retrograde]
---

# Mercury must be in retrograde

It’s shaping up to be this kind of day.  
  
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> It travels round the sun  
> Six times to our one  
> What no one else can see  
> Is plain as day to me
> 
> They say its surface is hot as hell  
> Unwitting servants to its spell  
> You can’t flee Mercury in retrograde
> 
> You can’t flee Mercury  
> You can’t flee Mercury  
> You can’t flee Mercury
> 
> It’s ten times worse than a full moon  
> You’re not even safe in your bedroom  
> Controls more than the rising tides  
> There’s nowhere to hide  
> There’s nowhere to hide
> 
> The gods must be against me  
> My shortwave doesn’t work  
> Lost signal, no connection  
> Nothing goes right
> 
> Imbalance in the system  
> Rogue planet off its track  
> All circuits overloaded  
> Nothing goes right
> 
> Damn that planet  
> Damn that star  
> Force of disruption from afar  
> You can’t flee Mercury  
> You can’t flee Mercury
> 
> Free from Mercury  
> Free from Mercury