Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

Wrote this one at Victory, along with some others that'll go into an EP. I'm actually learning how to master my tracks better woop woop...

-*-

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/artist/2dyX0QEcKG56dd5l9Pd2G5 AND open.spotify.com/artist/5g0bnBLy36bFr7ssEW2vcS?si=q0Po5CSaRT2hAk-xB4kUzQ

ITUNES/APPLE MUSIC: itunes.apple.com/us/album/juvenescence/1450328437

BANDCAMP: laureliamadeus.bandcamp.com

SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/user-272629114

TUMBLR: laureli-amadeus-music.tumblr.com

INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/laureli.amadeus

-*-

Bari uke capo 2

2 0 0 2
2 2 1 3
5 5 5 7
5 5 5 5
2 0 0 2
2 0 2 2
2 0 3 2
5 5 0 0
2 2 1 3

5 5 5 7
5 5 5 5
5 5 0 0
2 2 1 3
5 5 0 0

[Verse 1]
I could sing it loud, I could whisper low:
You’re my beating heart, You’re my living soul
My one true love, Lord, You’ll never turn Your back to me

[Verse 2]
Sinking like an anvil through the ocean depths
When I have no peace, when I have no rest
Please give me life, Lord. Show me grace, Lord.
Your love has no flaws but I pray You keep me at Your hip like a child, love me like a bride, and hold me close

[Chorus]
My heart’s been destroyed, take Your strings and make me whole
Mend me, Love, as my flesh and blood go cold
(string slide)

[Verse 3]
All busted up, my body rusts, pinioned in these wretched cuffs
I pray, Lord save me, I’m not worthy, but all my life I’ve been so lonely
Keep my vagabond feet on Your road
I could be so bitter, but that ain’t the truth I’m walking toward, no that ain’t the truth I’m walking toward

[Bridge]
How could You die for us? Your only child for us? Mercy, gentle Love, my heart can’t take much more
How could You live for us? Your endless love for us?
My soul adores, adores, adores You so
I’d die for, die for, die for you Lord
A thousand times again, again and more
Just to set a hand upon your robes

[Chorus] x2
My heart’s been destroyed, take Your strings and make me whole
Mend me, Love, as my flesh and blood go cold

[Outro]
Mend me, mend me, mend me Lord oh mend me
Mend me, mend me, mend me Lord oh mend me
Mend me, mend me, mend me, mend me Lord oh mend me
Mend me, mend me, mend me Lord oh mend me

2 2 0 0
5 5 0 0
9 9 0 0