Xavier Rudd - Gather The Hands

      Gather the Hands - Xavier Rudd


{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#


[Chorus]

           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