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