Key: D major
Verse 1
Bb
Well now on a summer night,
Eb
oh in a dusky room
Come a little piece of
Bb
the Lord's undying light
F
Eb
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
Bb
In his mother's arms it was all
Eb
the beauty I could take
Bb
Like the missing words to some
F
prayer that I could never make
Bb
Eb
Oh, in a world so hard and dirty so
Bb
fouled and confused
Eb
Searching for a little bit
of God's mercy
Fsus4
Eb
I found living proof
Bb
Interlude 1
Eb
Fsus4
Bb
F
Well, I put my heart
Verse 2
Bb
and soul, babe,
Eb
I put 'em high upon a shelf
Bb
Right nex t to the faith,
F
Eb
the faith that I'd lost in myself
Bb
I went down into the desert city
Eb
Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
Bb
I crawled deep into some
kind of darkness
F
Lookin' to burn out every
Fsus4
trace of who I'd been
F
Eb
You do some sad, sad things baby
Bb
When it's your you 're tryin' to lose
Eb
You do some sad and hurtful
Fsus4
things
F
Eb
I've seen living proof
Interlude 2
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Verse 3
F
You shot through my
Fsus4
anger and rage
F
Cm
To show me my prison was
Fsus4
just an open cage
F
Fsus4
There were no keys no guards
Eb
Oh, just one frightened man and some old
Fsus4
F
Fsus4
F
shad ows for bars
Interlude 3
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Verse 4
Bb
Well now all that's sure
on the boulevard
Eb
Is that life is just a house of cards
Bb
As fragile as each and every breath
F
Of this boy sleepin' in
Fsus4
Eb
our bed
Bb
Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves, babe
Eb
Just a close band of happy thieves
Bb
And when that train comes
we'll get on board
F
And steal what we can from the treasures,
treasures of the Lord
Eb
It's been along long drought baby
Bb
Tonight the rain's pourin'
down on our roof
Eb
Fsus4
Oh, looking for a little bit of God's mercy
F
Eb
I found living proof
Bb
Oh living proof
Eb
I found living proof
Bb
Yeah, living proof
Eb
I found living proof
Bb
Oh living proof
Eb
I found living proof
Bb
Oh
Eb
Yeah I found living proof
Bb
I found liv ing proof
Eb
I found living proof
Outro 1
Oh
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
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ChordsBb Eb F Fsus4 Cm
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