Mercy Bound-Edwin McCain

[ti:Mercy Bound] [ar:Edwin McCain] [al:Mercy Bound] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mercy Bound - Edwin McCain [00:12.62]Late last night I awoke in a dream [00:14.97]To the sound of a voice that was almost [00:17.83]A scream oh oh oh [00:22.08] [00:23.56]From out of the city and out of the street [00:26.61]Out where the wind hits the cold concrete oh oh oh [00:33.93] [00:36.18]It's cold outside darkness your enemy [00:46.35] [00:47.69]No place to hide the voice said this to me [00:57.91] [01:00.49]In your doorways I have shivered [01:03.33]In your alleys I have gone to ground [01:11.32] [01:12.33]I will be delivered [01:14.71] [01:15.22]Someday I will be mercy bound [01:20.71] [01:29.43]I dreamed again it was West LA [01:32.17]On a crowded street on a hot summer day [01:35.57] [01:37.64]She was alone [01:39.17] [01:41.27]Three months late and beginning to show [01:43.58]In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow [01:46.44]She had no one to call and no way home [01:51.41] [01:53.35]And in my mind I knew I'd seen myself [02:03.52] [02:04.81]But in our blindness always seems like someone else [02:15.94] [02:17.95]There I was a rag a bone [02:20.87]A remnant in your lost and found [02:28.48] [02:29.40]I was for once truly alone [02:32.81]Longing to be mercy bound [02:37.55] [02:40.75]And I knew that I would wander as a child [02:44.59]In the forest 'til they found me [02:51.49] [02:52.28]And I called out to them but I could not penetrate [02:56.41]The silence all around me [03:03.11] [03:10.61]And when I wake I know you'll comfort me [03:20.69] [03:21.93]And I won't sleep again for an eternity [03:35.09]But others lie awake at night [03:38.01]In desperation more profound [03:46.53]And the coming of the morning light [03:49.81]Will not see them mercy bound [03:54.99] [03:57.67]And some will never dream again [04:02.96] [04:03.69]From sleeping on the ground [04:08.78] [04:09.39]Just longing to belong [04:11.90] [04:12.63]Dying to be mercy bound [04:18.19] [04:20.82]Please don't stop your dreaming [04:23.84]Someday we'll all be mercy bound [04:28.50] [04:35.31]Someday mercy bound