Intro
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verse 1
C G F
I remember the day of the Tennessee flood
C G F
The sound of the scream and the sight of the blood
C G
My son he saw as the animal died
F G
In the jaws of the dog as the river ran by
Am G F
I said, "Come back soon."
Instrumental
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verse 2
C G F
It's there on the page of the book that I read
C G F
The boy grew up and the yearling was dead
C G
He stood at the gate with the angel on guard
F G
And wept for the death of his little boy heart
Am G F
I say, "Come back soon.”
Am G F Am G F
Come back soon
G Am F
We wake in the night in the womb of the world
Am G F
We beat our fists on the door
G Am F
We cannot breathe in this sea that swirls
Am G F
So we groan in this great darkness
C F G
For deliverance
C F G
Deliverance, O Lord
Instrumental
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verse 3
C G F
I sit on the bench at the bend in the trail
C G F
And I can feel in the fall the final exhale
C G
The trees of the field all wring their hands
F G
And the leaves go by like a funeral band
Am G F
I say, "Come back soon.”
Am G F
Come back soon
Instrumental
Am G F (x2)
G Am F
We wake in the night in the womb of the world
Am G F
We beat our fists on the door
G Am F
We cannot breathe in this sea that swirls
Am G F
So we groan in this great darkness
Am G F
Are we alone in this great darkness?
Outro
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verse 4
C G F
If nature's red in tooth and in claw
C G F
Then it seems to me that she's an outlaw
C G
'Cause every death is a question mark
F G
At the end of the book of a beating heart
Am G
And the answer is scrawled in the silent dark
F G
On the dome of the sky in a billion stars
Am G
But we cannot read these angel tongues
F G
And we cannot stare at the burning sun
Am G
And we cannot breathe with these broken lungs
F G
So we kick in the womb and we beg to be born
Am F G
Deliverance!
Am F G
Deliverance, O Lord!
Am F G
Deliverance!
Outro
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