Something I Can Hold In My Hands

	  		


C 
Stories from southern explorers tell of vastly open sky 
All I see is sweat and concrete, I avert my eyes 
           Am 
They put scaffolding, warning signs and things we used to climb 
G                         F 
Fences around fences and told us to say inside 
C 
We enter city nights wide eyed 
                     Am 
Like lambs to the slaughter 
       G 
And around every corner someone's son's putting hands on 
F 
Someone else's daughter 
C 
And the fisherman catch chemicals 
Their boats fill up on rain 
Am 
We fill up on things we can't explain 
          G                     F 
And we laugh, as we trickle down the drain 
As we trickle down 
C 


C 
And I grew up not far from here but now nothing's the same 
Am 
Curiosity is killing me as my nine lives turn to eight 
G 
We have nothing we have love, we share each other's pain 
F 
And I've got plans for you and me, our lives are gonna change 
C 
And my fathers a hero so I follow in his path 
Am 
Just by endless words of wisdom 
Em 
Sometimes *i never see how long* 

G 
When I was young wanted to destroy everything I made 
F 
Now I'm old, I'm jaded but at least I'm not the same 
C 
And every inch of me is always itching unless I'm on a 
Am 
stage. *And I abuse the path I 
G 
admit it* with the plans that I have made, *defy its temp 
F 
tuition* and my debts will get payed 
And we live 
C 
*Breathe once to me* 
Am 
Now I smiling when I 
G 
wake. For the first time in 
F 
my life I'm smiling when I wake and 

C 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
Am 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
G 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
F 

C 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
Am 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
G 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
F 
And here it is 

C 
All I ever needed was better timing and plans 
C 
All I ever needed was someone like you 
F 
And all my life I known this is exactly what I should do 
C 

C 
Not just sit in my own skin 
C 
And I've never been as happy as 
F 
here. As happy as 
C 
here 

F                                                  C 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
Am                                               G 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands yeah 
F 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
F 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
Am 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 
F 
All I ever needed was something I can hold in my hands 

And here it is