No place to hide the voice said this to me
Will not see them mercy bound
Oh I won't sleep again for an eternity
But in our blindness, always seems like someone else
And I called out to them but I could not penetrate
Out where the wind hits the cold concrete, oh, oh, oh
There I was a rag a bone
She had no one to call and no way home
On a crowded street on a hot summer day
And I knew that I would wander as child
It's cold outside, darkness your enemy
But some will never dream again
In your doorways I have shivered
In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow
I was for once truly alone
Longing to be mercy bound
A remnant in your lost and found
I dreamed again it was west L.A.
And the coming of the morning light
Someday I will be mercy bound
From out of the city and out of the street
From sleeping on the ground
And in my mind, I knew I'd seen myself
She was alone, three months late and beginning to show
But I will be delivered
In the forest till they found me
And when I wake I know you'll comfort me
In your alleys I have gone to ground
Oh, please don't stop your dreaming
The silence all around me
