Many people would consider this song a sort of "filler" in the RTS album, it’s not a very long song, located toward the end, and well, it ain’t that very deep when it comes to meaning. This is basically what I consider an unfair assumption. Out of all the songs on RTS, this has got to be one of the songs with the most character. For one, it’s very basic, I just love how the slide guitar, piano, and harmonica, along with everything else they use simply blend in together like magic. Adam Duritz sings this song sounding like a wino in some drunken stupor babbling continuously about some woman…..it’s just perfect.

On it’s most reflective level, Mercury strikes me as a song about ultimate acceptance, no matter how messed up this character being described in the song is, it just goes back to the line "Yeah, but she’s all right with me", but let’s not even bother going into that. On it’s most basic level, it’s just the band having plain old fun….that’s all, and "That’s all right WITH ME".

Hearing this song is one thing, I can imagine it live, the closest thing I ever saw was on TV when they showed them recording this song in the studio, it was just amazing seeing the band work and slowly put this song together. Mercury is like the perfect "jam/hang-out" song which any band would love to play on a lazy afternoon.