Tabbed by: Aaron Field
Standard Tuning


Chords used:  

   E4  F#m7  B9  Bbm7  A9  E   C   D  A4  E/G#  
e | --0-----0------0-----0------0----0---0---2---0-----0-- | 
B | --0-----0------0-----0------0----0---1---3---0-----5-- | 
G | --(b9)----2------4-----7------2----1---0---2---6-----4-- | 
D | --(b9)----2------4-----7------2----2---2---0---7-----2-- | 
A | --7-----0------2-----x------0----2---3---0---7-----x-- | 
E | --0-----2------0-----7------0----0---0---x---5-----4-- | 


Listen to the CD for strumming patterns.


Intro:  E4 - E4 - F#m7 - B9


Verse 1:

E4
Late last night I awoke in a dream
       Bbm7                               F#m7          B9
To the sound of a voice that was almost a scream , oh oh oh
     E4
From out of the city and out of the street
Bbm7                                F#m7         B9
Out where the wind hits the cold concrete, oh oh oh


Pre-Chorus 1:

A9  E    A9  E    A9  E          B9    
 It's  cold  out   side, dark  ness, your enemy
A9  E    A9  E    A9  E          F#m7
 No    place to    hide, the   voice said this to me


Chorus 1:

        A9      
In your doorways I have shivered
                               B9
In your alleys I have gone to ground
F#m7
I will be delivered
    B9               E4 - F#m7 - B9
Someday I will be mercy bound


Verse 2:

  E4
I dreamed again it was West L.A.
      Bbm7                            F#m7        B9
On a crowded street on a hot summer day, she was alone
E4
Three months late and beginning to show
       Bbm7                               
In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow
        F#m7                  B9
She had no one to call and no way home


Pre-Chorus 2:

A9  E   A9  E    A9  E        B9
 And   in   my    mind   I    knew I'd seen myself
A9  E   A9  E         A9   E          F#m7
 But   in   our   blindness, always seems like someone else


Chorus 2:

A9
There I was a rag a bone
                           B9
A remnant in your lost and found
  F#m7
I was for once truly alone
B9               E
Longing to be mercy bound


Bridge:

      C
And I knew that I would wander as a child
                       D
In the forest 'til they found me
      C
And I called out to them but I could not penetrate
                 E       F#m7   B9
The silence all around me


Pre-Chorus 3:

A9  E   A9  E    A9  E           B9
 And   when  I    wake   I    know you'll comfort me
A9  E  A9  E      A9    E   F#m7
 And   I   won't sleep again for an eternity


Chorus 3:

    A9 
But others lie awake at night
                       B9
In desperation more profound
        F#m7
And the coming of the morning light
B9                   E
Will not see them mercy bound
    A4            E/G#
And some will never dream again
     F#m7            B9
From sleeping on the ground
     A9            
Just longing to belong
B9             A9
Dying to be mercy bound
F#m7 
please don't stop your dreaming
    B9                  E4    F#m7
Someday we'll all be mercy bound
    B9     E4
Someday mercy bound
F#m7  B9   E
oohhhhh, ohhhhhhh