Hands Like Houses - Lion Skin

      

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 Tuning: Standard.
 
 
 
 (Intro)
 
 Em - C - Em - D - Em 
          
 
 Em                                  
 I wonder, can you daydream at night?
 C                     D             
 Lying awake, I've had too much time.
 Em                                       
 I'm watching picture shows in the shadows
                       C     
 Dance for the crowd tonight.
      D                               C    
 Imagination is such a vivid place to hide,
                   D        
 While stars watch over you.
 
                Em   
 Through silent homes
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
                       C    
 The way I've walked before,
                D                                  Em    
 Sleeping, with saints and apparitions between the walls.
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
 C                                        D                      Em   
 I promised not to wake you, so I'll walk light, just so you can hear,
 
                                          C       
 The rats in the roof and termites in the ceiling.
            D                                 Em   
 We'll hear everything except what we need to hear.
                                        C             
 Sleeplessness is for the restless, and I'm just fine,
         D                    C             D 
 Left to wander, aimless in unconsciousness.
 
 Em              D                               C    
 There's spiders crawling from the corners of my eyes.
                             D                                    Em   
 Let them weave their little webs to snatch the sunlight from the lens.
                    D                                  C     
 I'm staring at the ceiling 'cause I'm fed up with the sight.
                          D                              C       
 Weigh my eyelids back to sleep, sealed by silken silver threads,
                   D        
 While stars watch over you.
 
                Em   
 Through silent homes
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
                       C    
 The way I've walked before,
                D                                  Em    
 Sleeping, with saints and apparitions between the walls.
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
 C                          D    
 Cast the sheep out of your mind,
                                    Em    
 Count the wolves and we'll sleep tonight.
 
 Em                          D                         C              
 I stumble in and I stumble out of unfamiliar rooms in foreign houses,
     D           
 But I'm at home,
 Em                          D               
 Now a ghost that has left behind his sheets,
               C     D                                        C    
 Unrequited, until I wake up somewhere I know that I've never been.
                D                Em  
 I'll stay 'til sleep takes over you.
                D                C   
 I'll stay 'til sleep takes over you.
                     D                Em  
 And I'll walk while stars watch over you.
                     D                C   
 And I'll walk while stars watch over you.
 
 
                Em   
 Through silent homes
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
                       C    
 The way I've walked before,
                D                                  Em    
 Sleeping, with saints and apparitions between the walls.
                          D                
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
                       C    
 The way I've walked before,
                D                                  Em    
 Sleeping, with saints and apparitions between the walls.
                         D                 
 The lights are out but I walk these halls,
 C                          D    
 Cast the sheep out of your mind,
                                    C     
 Count the wolves and we'll sleep tonight.