Mercy Chords by Melissa Etheridge

[N] _ [Eb] So kind.
Oh!
_ [F] There you go.
[Fm] _ [Ab] [F] So uh yeah another song from the new album.
You know people [G] ask me the [F] same
way.
_ Lucky huh?
You say [Gb] yeah.
Yeah.
Very.
[Eb] It's good.
It's been a long [Ab] road.
It's about time.
[Eb] _ _ _ [B] Because you know you live your life.
There you are living your life.
You know.
Here I am [Ab] living my life.
[E] And the years they go by.
Oh!
Rickety [F] Jones.
[Gb] And uh [A] _ I'm off to the fond [Ab] of you. _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ And the next thing you know in your life you're like uh-oh I made a mistake.
Uh [Eb]-oh 10 years [Abm] went by.
Uh-oh.
[Bb] But you know [Ab] it's [Dbm] okay.
You can you can decide the other way.
You
can say wait a [Fm] minute.
[Ab] I can be happy.
I can go all the way.
[Abm]
[Gb] I can do it and [A] it's okay.
It doesn't
matter.
You don't [G] have to settle for less.
No [Eb] you don't.
[B] But [Gb] of course then when the good thing
comes along you've got to be ready for [Ab] it.
Because sometimes it surprises you.
[B] Sometimes you're like
wait no.
You're [Dbm] much too pretty to be nice.
No impossible.
[B] I don't believe it.
You see you got
to be open to it.
You got to be open to the good thing.
All you gotta do is [Abm] say please [Eb] honey.
[A] Please just have [B] some mercy on me.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ [Bb] Well I have lived 10 [F] years plus [Bb] 10 and 10 and 10 again.
[Eb] I have seen too much to pretend.
[F] Then you wanted to come in.
_ [Gm] _ [Bb] I've done all the [Bbm] lies that made me wise.
[Bb] The locks and walls and [Eb] the piece of vice.
Still when I [F] look into your eyes it's a [Bb] surprise. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Mercy mercy baby.
[Eb] What _ [Bb] do you want [F] from me?
[Bb] Well I plead mercy mercy [Bbm] baby.
I do not know what this all [Bb] means.
[Eb] It's been a while since I've been
[Bb] just [F] my jacket.
[Bb] It hurts to walk.
It hurts to talk.
It hurts to think about it.
Shout about [Eb] it.
Could I be sure without a doubt [F] that you could never live [Bb] without me?
Yeah _ _ okay.
_ Mercy [Eb] baby.
What do you [F] want from _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[F] me? Lord.
_ _ [Gm] Won't you call on me.
Call [Eb] on me.
Sir in the [Bb] hall.
In you now. _
[F] _ _ Could [Gm] I be sure of you.
Pure [Eb] of you.
Finding the cure in [Bb] you.
I plead.
Have mercy [F] on me. _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Kneeling altar in the temple of your eyes.
[Ebm] And I'm asking for a miracle.
I have [F] been
too long paralyzed.
When you [Bbm] say get up.
Stand up.
But [Bb] climb the rope of hope and open up again.
[Eb] All the peace you say has promised [F] me.
Seems too much to [Bb] comprehend.
_ _ _ _ _ Mercy baby.
[Eb] Lord.
What do you want from [F] me?
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ Mercy mercy mercy.
[Bbm] Mercy [Bb] baby.
[Eb] _ What can this girl [F] believe?
_ What do you [Bb] want from me?
_ _ _ Mercy baby.
[Eb] _ Mercy baby.
[F] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ Mercy baby.
Mercy baby.
Baby baby.
Just hold [Eb] on tight.
Let [F] it all go.
Let it all go.
It's [Bbm] gonna be alright.
_ It's gonna be okay. _ _
[Eb] _ _ Have _ _ _ _
mercy
_ on me. _ _ _
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