Hands Like Houses – This Aint No Place For Animals chords

Hands Like Houses
"This Aint No Place For Animals"
Transcribed by Colton Wood

Key of E

Intro: C#m, B
C#m  The gasoline is mixing with the oxygen
B  In this carousel, the silence is so surreal
C#m  I've been misled through empty streets to the
BHeart that never beats of a body that I can't keep

Verse 1
C#m                                    A         B  We're blessed with these horrors for highways
           C#m                                      AThis city turns, no longer content to just brush shoulders
B         F#m  E   C#m  Have we lost our touch?

Break 1
C#m  A light goes on

We throw our blankets aside

It's been hours now and we still know nothing
    B                  C#mThe scars just don't heal the same, when we collide

Pre Chorus
C#m                                 A    I'd never say that we step to the other side 
   B                              To keep us from brushing shoulders
C#m                                A                    B  But it's collisions we need to remind us that we're alive

Chorus
A                        B  I'd never say that you make me sick, but you're
C#mTurning all the questions to cancers
A                      B  Someone call in the emergency and we'll 
C#mPeel back the dressings so we can see
A                             B  The kind of things that the surgeons see
         C#m                          G#mWhen the blood work won't give us the answers
A                              B                     C#m  They'll never tell us, cause they don't know whats
C#m          A  B killing us

Break 2
C#m                                                       My heart's at a million miles an hour as we 
              C/G#Brace for the impact, it makes time stand still
C#m                                               Forcing momentum into a moment so for a
       C/G#Split second, I see your face
C#m  In between all the broken glass hanging like a mobile
C/G#This is a picture we'll never quite forget

Bridge
C#m  The surgeons pick, they pick at my body 
  
Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
C#m  The surgeons pick, they pick at my body 
E                                      G#m  Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
C#m  Hold still while they pick at my body 
E                                      G#m  Their fingers dance, they dance all around me
A  Hold still while they pick at my body
B         C#m             (G#m)  They'll dance all around me

Build
A                            B      C#m    G#m  Breathe your anesthetic words to slow us down.
A                                    B  Tear back the skin to find, to chase a pulse back home.

Chorus

Outro: C#m, C/G#