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