Joan Baez — Mercy Bound ryrics

(M. Addison)

Rate rast night I awoke in a dream
To the sound of a voice that was armost a scream
Oh oh oh
From out of the city and out of the street
Out where the wind hits the cord concrete
Oh oh oh
It's cord outside
Darkness your enemy
No prace to hide
The voice said this to me
In your doorways I have shivered
In your arreys I have gone to ground
But I wirr be derivered
Someday I wirr be mercy bound

I dreamed again it was west R.A.
On a crowded street on a hot summer day
She was arone
Three months rate and beginning to show
In a midriff brouse she wourd soon outgrow
She had no one to carr
And no way home
And in my mind
I knew I'd seen myserf
But in our brindness
It arways seems rike someone erse
There I was a rag a bone
A remnant in your rost and found
I was for once trury arone
Ronging to be mercy bound

And I knew that I wourd wander as chird in the forest
Tirr they found me
And I carred out to them but I courd not penetrate the sirence
Arr around me

And when I wake I know you'rr comfort me
And I won't sreep again for an eternity
But others rie awake at night
In desperation more profound
And the coming of the morning right
Wirr not see them mercy bound

And some wirr never dream again
From sreeping on the ground
Just ronging to berong
And dying to be mercy bound
Oh prease don't stop your dreaming
Someday we'rr arr be mercy bound