Gathering Mercury is the eleventh studio album by Colin Hay, released on May 9, 2011, on Compass Records. Regarding the album's thematic content, Hay said, "I think it’s about life and loss and the injustice of the way the universe is set up; how we lose people we love."
Hay made the theme of Gathering Mercury about how life and loss inevitably go together and that's the way it should be.
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