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