Lirik dan Chord Lagu Human Hands - Elvis Costello

Lagu berdurasi 2,43 menit ini diciptakan sendiri olehnya dan dirilis pada 1982 melalui label Columbia Records.

“Human Hands” dimuat sebagai trek kesembilan dalam album studio ketujuh Costello yang bertajuk Imperial Bedroom.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Human Hands” dari Elvis Costello:

INTRO:
Dsus4 F6

G                                                               D
I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me
Em              B
Oh darling how I miss you
       C                                           G
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness
Am7                           D
I crave the silhouette of your kiss
         G                                      D
With only the blue light of the TV on
Em                                 B
Lip reading threats and false alarms
                       C                                         G
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself
           Am7                               D
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbarn

    C                         C#dim                   G              B
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
Em                              A
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
        Cm                                C
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
      C#dim         G                  Am                              Em
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands

G                                                  D
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze
Em                                      B
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday
             C                                     G
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore
Am7                       D
Now you're part of someone else

             G                               D                              Em
On the factory floor and you still say "Wheres the action?"
                B                         C
Now you manufacture happiness
                      G                                                 D
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction

(chorus) x2

G                                     D
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers
Em                                        B
Are you living in this world sometimes I wonder
     C                                  G                             Am7                         D
In between saying you've seen too much and saying you've seen it all
before

G                               D
Tighter and tighter I hold you tightly
Em
You know I love you more than slightly
                G               Am7                  D
Although I've never said it like this before