Hands Like Houses
"This Aint No Place For Animals"
Transcribed by Colton Wood

Key of E

Intro: C#m, B
C#m (x13321@4) The gasoline is mixing with the oxygen
B (x2444x@1) In this carousel, the silence is so surreal
C#m (x13321@4) I've been misled through empty streets to the
BHeart (x2444x@1)that never beats of a body that I can't keep

Verse 1
C#m (x13321@4)                                  A (x02220@1)       B (x2444x@1) We're blessed with these horrors for highways
           C#m (x13321@4)                                    AThis (x02220@1)city turns, no longer content to just brush shoulders
B (x2444x@1)       F#m (244222@1)E (022100@1) C#m (x13321@4) Have we lost our touch?

Break 1
C#m (x13321@4) A light goes on

We throw our blankets aside

It's been hours now and we still know nothing
    B (x2444x@1)                C#mThe (x13321@4)scars just don't heal the same, when we collide

Pre Chorus
C#m (x13321@4)                               A (x02220@1)
  I'd never say that we step to the other side 
   B (x2444x@1)                            
To keep us from brushing shoulders
C#m (x13321@4)                              A (x02220@1)                  B (x2444x@1) But it's collisions we need to remind us that we're alive

Chorus
A (x02220@1)                      B (x2444x@1) I'd never say that you make me sick, but you're
C#mTurning (x13321@4)all the questions to cancers
A (x02220@1)                    B (x2444x@1) Someone call in the emergency and we'll 
C#mPeel (x13321@4)back the dressings so we can see
A (x02220@1)                           B (x2444x@1) The kind of things that the surgeons see
         C#m (x13321@4)                        G#mWhen (133111@4)the blood work won't give us the answers
A (x02220@1)                            B (x2444x@1)                   C#m (x13321@4) They'll never tell us, cause they don't know whats
C#m (x13321@4)        A (x02220@1)B (x2444x@1)killing us

Break 2
C#m (x13321@4)                                                   
  My heart's at a million miles an hour as we 
              C/G#Brace (4x555x@1)for the impact, it makes time stand still
C#m (x13321@4)                                           
  Forcing momentum into a moment so for a
       C/G#Split (4x555x@1)second, I see your face
C#m (x13321@4) In between all the broken glass hanging like a mobile
C/G#
This is a picture we'll never quite forget

Bridge
C#m (x13321@4) The surgeons pick, they pick at my body 
  
Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
C#m (x13321@4) The surgeons pick, they pick at my body 
E (022100@1)                                    G#m (133111@4) Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
C#m (x13321@4) Hold still while they pick at my body 
E (022100@1)                                    G#m (133111@4) Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
A (x02220@1) Hold still while they pick at my body
B (x2444x@1)       C#m (x13321@4)           (G#m)
  They'll dance all around me

Build
A (x02220@1)                          B (x2444x@1)    C#m (x13321@4)  G#m (133111@4) Breathe your anesthetic words to slow us down.
A (x02220@1)                                  B (x2444x@1) Tear back the skin to find, to chase a pulse back home.

Chorus

Outro: C#m, C/G#