These Hands

(Prelude)
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|Am	  |         |Am     G |C        |G      G7 |Am       |Am      G |

|C        |C      G |Am       ||:Am                 G      |C            |
                                 1.Yes it's you who keep us waiting   You

|G               G7     |Am            |              G     |C           |
 want us to wait for the right time        The right time to find out

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 Who we are and what it is we must do              2.Where we must go and

|C                              |Am                      |Em             |
 who will be there with us         And who it is that can-not

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 Who it is that have gone be-fore us          And who it is that we truly
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|1.                ||2.          ||3,4,5.
|Em	  |	  :||Em         :||Em              |  (omit bar on 4,5)  |   
 love                way           gate

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7.Why do the beautiful never make it         Curled up in the corner of a 

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 room       When loss and despair walk hand in hand    Death comes in too
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|1,2.               ||3.                                    DS%al@
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 soon                 love
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3.Oh, these hands
  These hands that tremble with the cup of life
  Oh, these hands
  These hands that steer my soul toward the light

4.We have been waiting such a long time
  We have been waiting for the day
  We that are lost and without purpose
  We that are waiting still that way

5.But oh, these hands
  These hands that hold my head against your breast
  Oh, these hands
  Your hand of sweet love and tenderness

6.Yes it's you, you leave me breathless
  You leave me wanting more than I can take
  And it's you, you leave me helpless
  You leave me down here waiting at the gate

8.Oh, these hands
  Your hands that have cared for me so much
  Oh, these hands
  Your hands that I am missing now so much

9.And through it all you keep us waiting
  You keep us waiting for so long
  Through hard questions with no easy answers
  For signs of hope where hope is gone

10.Still in all we are kept wanting
  Wanting much more than we can take
  For a touch of love where love has been taken away
  Regretting all our past mistakes

11.Oh, these hands
  These hands that come to me within the night
  Oh, these hands
  These hands that hold my head up to the light

12.Still in all you keep us looking
  Looking for a better world to show
  To appear among the disappointments
  The bitter disappointments that we know

13.And it's you who keep us waiting
  Waiting for the time to come
  Thinking of those who are no longer with us
  Thinking of those we truly love

14.Oh, these hands
  May your hands return to me again some day
  Oh, these hands
  May your hands return to guide me on the way