C F C F G C F

[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]
C F C F G C F

[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

[Chorus]
   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]
C F C F G C F

[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)

[Chorus]
   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]
G Am F Am G F  G Am F

[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!