A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene chords by Okkervil River
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'm the band in a show
?Bout a man holding hands
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with his wife
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On a therapist couch with his
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face to the ground
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After fucking around countless nights
Verse 2
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And there's this one episode
Close-up cameras cameras
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were showing him crying
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His red head and his red eyes
Verse 3
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I'm the band in a show
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?Bout a boy being buried alive
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From his head to his
toes by a criminal
But with a sensitive soul,
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with a set of raccoon eyes
Verse 4
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And there's this scene in the show
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When a hustler knows he's gonna die
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The ground opens
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and he climbs inside
Verse 5
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And as he speaks his last line
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A thought falls from his mind
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And I pick it up and write
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it through the TV
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Oh, oh, is there a hand to
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take hold of the scene?
Verse 6
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I'm a man in a dream
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And they're dancing in front of my eyes
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Is the queen informed of the flaws
With the eyes all got odd and
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rumpled into her spine
Verse 7
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She rises up like a young
group from a heart
Like a claw splits apart like a jaw,
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like an eye
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And she asks me with a sigh
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Verse 8
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We were so far from right
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We were using the fight
We were letting the light
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weaken it's beam
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Oh, oh, is there a hand to take
Interlude 1
hold of the scene?
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Verse 9
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I wanted to smile like a glisten
ing shot of a kiss
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That's as sharp as a knife, the day expires
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In the dry, cracked,
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trembling lips [Incomprehensible]
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But this gets inside
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I lift them up to you,
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I'd like to bear witness to
Verse 10
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Our life that is fine
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And is filling the cryingest eyes
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Gracing each face that
is making the waste
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That is broken as one's fairly fly
Verse 11
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Love that is in us
Of that ol' cynical covetest, can
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cerous vibe
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And a beauty that annihilates all life
Verse 12
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Like it's lived in these nights,
holding your hatred tight
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Like a sign that should
[Incomprehensible] you strong
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When the doors are shut tight,
I will dream you tonight
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And my dream will just sweep you along
Verse 13
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When all the fires are fanned
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We'll shout you our plans
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We're too weak to stand
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on our two feet
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Oh, oh, is there a hand to take hold of
Outro 1
the scene?
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A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene
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