Gather The Hands

Intro B D#m F# C# (x2) Verse B D#m She was delivered by the grace of his hands F# C# Kindness, relentless, wired to be shared B D#m People stood awkwardly and gazed across the room F# C# She walked with such elegance in the places that she knew Verse B D#m Flawlessness, contagious, compassionate, engagement F# C# In these hands I belong, in these hands you belong B D#m Foolish, segregation, scars deep beneath the skin F# C# Of the black man and the white man and everyone in between B D#m F# C# (x2) Verse B D#m Forever sacred was the feminine, right down to the final hour F# C# When every baby to be taken was to be poisoned to be soured B D#m Bodies turning in their graves and spirits waiting to go home F# C# Disconnected from their holy place when the museum stole their bones Verse B D#m Cry freedom, still bleeding, still waiting for a reason F# C# Throw these arms around the world, Throw these arms around the world B D#m Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone F# C# So heavy from its history, of shame and blood and bone B D#m F# C# [Refrão] F# Gather the hands to move the stone C# Gather the hands to move the stone B Sing it up to the heavens D#m C# Let it rain down on us all (x6) Outro B D#m Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone F# C# So heavy from its history, of shame and blood and bone