A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

/ D♯m /... / = 2 measures of Ebm

D♯m

I'm a bD♯mand in a show about a man holding hands with his C♯wife

on a tD♯mherapist's couch, with his face to the ground (after fucking around

cC♯ountless nights)

and, in this oBne episode, close-up cameras are showing him cC♯rying,

his red G♯mhead and Bhis red C♯eyes.

*Verse 2*

I'm a D♯mband in a show about a boy being buried aC♯live,

from his D♯mhead to his toes, by a criminal (but with a sensitive soul!) with

a C♯set of raccoon eyes,

and there's this sBcene in the show when a hustler knows

he's gonna dC♯ie.

The ground oG♯mpens and Bhe climbs C♯inside.

*Chorus*

AF♯nd as he speaks his last C♯line, a thought falls from his G♯mmind and I pick it

up rBight through the TC♯V:

Oh G♯moh B Is there a C♯hand to take hold of the scene?

*Post-Chorus*

F♯ G♯m C♯ B

*Verse 3*

I'm a D♯mman in a dream and there, dancing in front of my C♯eyes,

is a D♯mqueen - formed out of flaws, with her eyes all gone odd and a rod

bolted into her sC♯pine.

She rises uBp like a yawn. She grips my heart like a claw. She splits apart

like a jaw, like an eC♯ye.

And she G♯masks me Bwith a C♯sigh,

*Chorus*

WF♯hen we're so far from C♯right, when we're losing the G♯mfight, when we're

letting the lBight weaken its C♯beam -

Oh G♯moh B Is there a C♯hand to take hold of the scene?

*Post-Chorus*

F♯ G♯m C♯ B

I F♯want a smile like a gG♯mlistening shard. I want a kiss that's as sharp as a

C♯knife. The day Bexpires, and the

dF♯ry, cracked, tG♯mrembling lips God saw fit to put this kiss iC♯nside, I

lift them Bup to yF♯ou.

I'd like to bear G♯mwitness C♯to a

*Verse 4*

lD♯might that is fine and is filling the cryingest eC♯yes,

gD♯mrace in each face that is making the wastedest,

brokenest ones fairly C♯fly,

lBove that is innocent of that old cynical, covetous, cancerous vC♯ibe,

and a G♯mbeauty B that anC♯nihilates all

*Chorus*

lF♯ife like it's lived in these C♯nights, holding your hatred G♯mtight like a sign

that you're rBight or you're strong.

WF♯hen your doors are shut C♯tight, I will dream you G♯mtonight, and my dream will

just sBweep you along.

WF♯hen all fires are fC♯anned, when we're shucking our pG♯mlans, when we're too

wBeak to sC♯tand on our two feet

Oh G♯moh B Is there a C♯hand to take hold of the scene?

B

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