Mercy Bound Lyrics - Singles - Borrowers

Late last night I awoke in a dream 

To the sound of a voice that was almost a scream, oh, oh, oh 

From out of the city and out of the street 

Out where the wind hits the cold concrete, oh, oh, oh 

It's cold outside, darkness your enemy 

No place to hide the voice said this to me 

In your doorways I have shivered 

In your alleys I have gone to ground 

But I will be delivered 

Someday I will be mercy bound 

I dreamed again it was west L.A. 

On a crowded street on a hot summer day 

She was alone, three months late and beginning to show 

In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow 

She had no one to call and no way home 

And in my mind, I knew I'd seen myself 

But in our blindness, always seems like someone else 

There I was a rag a bone 

A remnant in your lost and found 

I was for once truly alone 

Longing to be mercy bound 

And I knew that I would wander as child 

In the forest till they found me 

And I called out to them but I could not penetrate 

The silence all around me 

And when I wake I know you'll comfort me 

Oh I won't sleep again for an eternity 

But some will never dream again 

From sleeping on the ground 

And the coming of the morning light 

Will not see them mercy bound 

Oh, please don't stop your dreaming 

Someday we'll all be mercy bound, mercy bound