Written by Hands Like Houses/Erik Ron
"Developments - Hands Like Houses" Key of F# Intro (Piano): F#, D#m, C#, F# F#, C#, F#, C# Intro (with Guitar): (B D#m, C# B, C#, F#) x2 F# F# B We get in our own way, tripping on our feet. F# B Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak. D#m B F# Drowning in a place, where the night cannot escape, commit ourselves into the B depths, exposed against a page. D#m C# F# D#m C# D#m Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds, a flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes. F# C# F# I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night. C# F# I'll show you that the image is still there unseen. F# C# F# C# It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we B have lost inside the lines between. B C# D#m Between the black and white, where everything goes grey, and everything's C# B C# unsaid, undone, and the negative bleeds away to reveal the memory that we've D#m C# waited for so long for the image shifts and the acid drips down the paper to the floor. D#m C# F# D#m C# D#m Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds, a flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes. F# C# F# I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night. C# F# I'll show you that the image is still there unseen. F# C# F# C# It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we B have lost inside the lines between. D#m C# B F# D#m We're so nervous to see if we've let too much in, if we, if we were out of C# focus or out of frame. F# D#m C# F# D#m I know it's a moment of truth, if a recollection reflects reality, C# or if it's lost forever. F# C# F# B I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night. C# F# I'll show you that the image is still there unseen. F# C# F# C# It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we F# have lost inside the lines between. F# C# D#m C# I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last. F# The image is still there, unseen.