Wicked Hands chords by Ruston Kelly

🎸 Intro:

F#m      G    Bm     A  (x2)



🎸 Verse 1:
          D
It was a can of paint
        Bm
With an ironic name
       G
Black Magic shade
          A
Over the fireplace
         D
And you turned away
 Bm
As Sufjan sang
          G
Is there dignity in death
         A
If there isn't any hope left?
               Bm
But I know I tried to be
                    F#m
What I thought you needed me to be
    G                                     D         A
But I was becomin' somethin' that would never be me
             G
I heard the mating call
                     Bm
For everything that made us fall
             A
Out of the promised land
              D          Em     F#m
With bags of contraband

🎸 Chorus:
       G                            Bm                  A
I'm stranded in the desert with my empty and wicked hands
       G                                Bm     A
Just tryin' to find my way before I'm lost
       Em            F#m                G
But I cannot keep livin' with the memory
            Bm              A
Of all the heartbreak I swore that I forgot

🎸 Interlude:
F#m      G    Bm     A

F#m      G    Bm     A






🎸 Verse 2:
            D
And in the early light
         Bm
I find my enemy lines
       G
And I bend into the dream
        A
That today I will make peace
           D
With that box of things
           Bm
That's still haunting me
      G
So I take it to the trash
         A
Throw it in and I don't look back
                       Bm
'Cause I know there's more to me
         F#m
Than even I have seen
   G                                D           A
So I get up and keep on fightin' in spite of me
            G
I hear the siren call
                     Bm
For everything that makes me fall
               A
Far from the promised land
             D      Em     F#m
Lookin' for heroin

🎸 Chorus:
       G                              Bm                 A
And I wake up in the mornin' with my ugly and wicked hands
        G                                   Bm     A
I just cannot bear the weight of all I've lost
          Em           F#m               G
'Cause I cannot keep doin' all the same things
        Bm                A              F#m
And pretend like there will not be a cost

🎸 Interlude:
G    Bm     A

F#m      G    Bm     A


🎸 Bridge:
    F#m                    G               A
But all this time
I thought it was a lost fight
   F#m                G               A
To get back everything
I left behind my
         Bm          G
Days of rage and shame
    D                 A
I still don't understand

🎸 Outro:
F#m              G    Bm           A
God, help me hide my wicked hands
F#m              G    Bm           A
God, help me hide my wicked hands
F#m              G    Bm           A
God, help me hide my wicked hands
F#m              G    Bm           A
God, help me hide my wicked hands