Tabbed by: Aaron Field
Standard Tuning


Chords used:  

   E5  F#5  B5  Bb5  A5  E5   C5   D5  A5  E5  
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:  E5 - E5 - F#5 - B5


Verse 1:

E5
Late last night I awoke in a dream
       Bb5                               F#5          B5
To the sound of a voice that was almost a scream , oh oh oh
     E5
From out of the city and out of the street
Bb5                                F#5         B5
Out where the wind hits the cold concrete, oh oh oh


Pre-Chorus 1:

A5  E5    A5  E5    A5  E5          B5    
 It's  cold  out   side, dark  ness, your enemy
A5  E5    A5  E5    A5  E5          F#5
 No    place to    hide, the   voice said this to me


Chorus 1:

        A5      
In your doorways I have shivered
                               B5
In your alleys I have gone to ground
F#5
I will be delivered
    B5               E5 - F#5 - B5
Someday I will be mercy bound


Verse 2:

  E5
I dreamed again it was West L.A.
      Bb5                            F#5        B5
On a crowded street on a hot summer day, she was alone
E5
Three months late and beginning to show
       Bb5                               
In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow
        F#5                  B5
She had no one to call and no way home


Pre-Chorus 2:

A5  E5   A5  E5    A5  E5        B5
 And   in   my    mind   I    knew I'd seen myself
A5  E5   A5  E5         A5   E5          F#5
 But   in   our   blindness, always seems like someone else


Chorus 2:

A5
There I was a rag a bone
                           B5
A remnant in your lost and found
  F#5
I was for once truly alone
B5               E5
Longing to be mercy bound


Bridge:

      C5
And I knew that I would wander as a child
                       D5
In the forest 'til they found me
      C5
And I called out to them but I could not penetrate
                 E5       F#5   B5
The silence all around me


Pre-Chorus 3:

A5  E5   A5  E5    A5  E5           B5
 And   when  I    wake   I    know you'll comfort me
A5  E5  A5  E5      A5    E5   F#5
 And   I   won't sleep again for an eternity


Chorus 3:

    A5 
But others lie awake at night
                       B5
In desperation more profound
        F#5
And the coming of the morning light
B5                   E5
Will not see them mercy bound
    A5            E5
And some will never dream again
     F#5            B5
From sleeping on the ground
     A5            
Just longing to belong
B5             A5
Dying to be mercy bound
F#5 
please don't stop your dreaming
    B5                  E5    F#5
Someday we'll all be mercy bound
    B5     E5
Someday mercy bound
F#5  B5   E5
oohhhhh, ohhhhhhh