Premise: 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."
Hypothesis: The studio album by Colin Hay released on Compass Records on May 9, 2011, was about his theory of universe injustice, loss of life and the injustice of the universal setup which Hay says is how we lose people we love.