Mother of Mercy chords by Iron Maiden

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
Sitting, waiting in the falling rain
Getting ready to begin again
Wounded, lying,
Dm 
crying bodies moving, dying
Am 
All around there is the smell
of death and fire
Here the planes are coming
Hear the soldiers running

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Verse 2

Killing on a scale to comprehend

Esus4

Why are we here?

In this place, here to kill

Esus4

Please God, forgive us

Esus4

for what we have done

Verse 3

I always thought I was doing right

As of now, I'm not feeling so sure

I'm at a place of where I give no grace

Interlude 1

I'm a soldier of war

Verse 4
Am 
I sit waiting for my darkest
hour to come
I cannot think of about the things
that I have done
It shouldn't take a fool to
see that I believe
Accept the consequence,
repent for what I've done

Verse 5
F 
Dm 
You tell me what is certain but I'll
E 
tell you what is true
F 
Dm 
You tell me what is honesty when
E 
all around is death and cruelty
F 
Dm 
E 
I'm making out, my mind is vile,
C 
Dm 
I'm giving in to our desires
E 
Esus4 
Within       the truth that lies
E 
within the only thing

Verse 6
Am 
Mother of mercy, angel of death desire
Mother of mercy taking my
Bb 
Am 
last breath of fire
Mother of mercy, angel of pain
Mother of mercy taking
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Am 
my last breath

Verse 7
Dm 
Some say you are a lost cause,
some say you're a saint
Bb 
Just being here's and act
Dm 
of suffering and restraint
Walked down a long dark road
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to ruin and panic not
E 
Em 
E 
Em 
I'll die a lonely death, of that I'm certain of
E 
C 

Interlude 2

Verse 8
Am 
Rivers flow with blood, there's
nowhere left to hide
It's hard to comprehend
C 
Am 
there's anyone left alive
Sick of all the killing and the reek of death
Will God tell me what
G 
Am 
religion is to man?

Verse 9
F 
Dm 
I  don't hold with bad religion,
E 
Em 
un derstand what's underneath it
F 
Dm 
Now I come to think of it,
E 
I just don't hold at all, you know it
F 
Dm 
E 
You say you are a holy man
C 
but what is it you do?
Dm 
Esus4 
From where    I stand there's nothing
E 
but a hollow man I see

Verse 10
Am 
Mother of mercy, angel of death desire
Mother of mercy taking my
last breath of fire
Mother of mercy, angel of pain
Mother of mercy taking my
Bb 
Am 
last breath

Verse 11
Mother of mercy, angel of death desire
Mother of mercy taking my
last breath of fire
Mother of mercy, angel of pain
Mother of mercy drawing my last

Interlude 3

breath

Verse 12
Am 
I'm just a lonely soldier fighting in
Bb 
Am 
a bloody hopeless war
Don't know what I'm fighting, who it is,
Am 
or what I'm fighting for
Thought it was for money, made my fortune,
Am 
now I'm not so  sure
Am 
Seemed to just have lost my way