Edwin McCain - Mercy Bound

      

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 "Mercy Bound" by Edwin McCain
 From the album "Mercy Bound"

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 Standard Tuning
 
 Chords used:
 
 Esus4 F#m7 Bsus2 Bbm7 Asus2 E C D Asus4 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|--9-----2------4-----7------2----1---0---2---6-----4--|
 D|--9-----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: Esus4 - Esus4 - F#m7 - Bsus2
 
 Verse 1:
 
 Esus4                             
 Late last night I awoke in a dream
        Bbm7                               F#m7          Bsus2 
 To the sound of a voice that was almost a scream, oh oh oh
 Esus4 
  
 Bbm7                                F#m7         Bsus2 
 Out where the wind hits the cold concrete, oh oh oh
 
 Pre-Chorus 1:
 
 Asus2 E    Asus2 E    Asus2 E          Bsus2 
  It's cold  out side, dark ness, your enemy
 Asus2 E    Asus2 E    Asus2 E          F#m7      
  No place to hide, the voice said this to me
 
 Chorus 1:
 
         Asus2                   
 In your doorways I have shivered
                                Bsus2 
 In your alleys I have gone to ground
 F#m7               
 I will be delivered
     Bsus2               Esus4 - F#m7 - Bsus2 
 Someday I will be mercy bound
 
 Verse 2:
 
   Esus4                         
 I dreamed again it was West L.A.
       Bbm7                            F#m7        Bsus2 
 On a crowded street on a hot summer day, she was alone
 Esus4                                  
 Three months late and beginning to show
        Bbm7                               
 In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow
         F#m7                  Bsus2   
 She had no one to call and no way home
 
 Pre-Chorus 2:
 
 Asus2 E  Asus2 E    Asus2 E        Bsus2      
  And in  my mind  I knew I'd seen myself
 Asus2 E  Asus2 E         Asus2   E          F#m7        
  But in  our blindness, always seems like someone else
 
 Chorus 2:
 
 Asus2                   
 There I was a rag a bone
                            Bsus2 
 A remnant in your lost and found
   F#m7                    
 I was for once truly alone
 Bsus2               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 Bsus2 
 The silence all around me
 
 Pre-Chorus 3:
 
 Asus2 E   Asus2 E    Asus2 E           Bsus2     
  And when I wake  I know you'll comfort me
 Asus2 E Asus2  E      Asus2    E   F#m7   
  And I  won't sleep again for an eternity
 
 Chorus 3:
 
     Asus2                    
 But others lie awake at night
                        Bsus2 
 In desperation more profound
         F#m7                       
 And the coming of the morning light
 Bsus2                   E    
 Will not see them mercy bound
     Asus4            E/G#      
 And some will never dream again
 F#m7 Bsus2 
   
      Asus2            
 Just longing to belong
 Bsus2             Asus2 
 Dying to be mercy bound
 F#m7                           
 please don't stop your dreaming
     Bsus2                  Esus4 F#m7 
 Someday we'll all be mercy bound
     Bsus2     Esus4 
 Someday mercy bound
 F#m7  Bsus2   E  
 oohhhhh, ohhhhhhh