• Song:

    Human Hands

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    Imperial Bedroom

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Tom: G5

Intro: D5    F5

G5                                           D5
I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me 
E5         B5
Oh darling how I miss you 
    C5                          G5
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness 
A5                    D5
I crave the silhouette of your kiss 
     G5                          D5
With only the blue light of the TV on 
E5                      B5
Lip reading threats and false alarms 
              C5                       G5
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself 
      A5                     D5
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbarn
    C5             C#5            G5          B5
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt 
E5                     A5
That it's you that I'm dreaming about 
     C5                    C5
Do I have to draw you a diagram? 
    C#5       G5               A5                    E5
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands 
G5                                D5
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze 
E5                       B5
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday 
        C5                          G5
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore 
A5                D5
Now you're part of someone else 
       G5                     D5                     E5
On the factory floor and you still say "Wheres the action?" 
        B5                C5
Now you manufacture happiness 
             G5                               D5
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction 

**Chorus
G5                        D5
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers 
E5                           B5
Are you living in this world sometimes I wonder 
     C5                   G5                 A5                   D5
In between saying you've seen too much and saying you've seen it all before
G5                     D5
Tighter and tighter I hold you tightly 
E5  
You know I love you more than slightly 
         G5          A5               D5
Although I've never said it like this before 
**Chorus
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