Hand On My Back chords by
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Key: A minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I move through
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the world like an arrow that flies
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Slicing the air as I'm
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mapping the skies
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And way deep down the echoes remain
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Memories sounding like rattling chains
Verse 2
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F
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But lately I think I am coming around
C
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I'm liking the feel of my
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feet on the ground
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And last night I stopped
F
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dead in these tracks
C
C

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Recalling your hand on the
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small of my back
Verse 3
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The slightest brush but as powerful too
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As an electrical storm that's
moving on through
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Then is gone as fast as it came,
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leaving nothing,
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Not even the rain
Verse 4
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When I was younger how I took my time
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Folly and wisdom form points on a line
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From one to another with space in between
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For the lessons you learn and the
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dreams that you dream
Verse 5
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But tell me what happens when
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dreams don't come true
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How you overcome some things
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until they overtake you
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Why you never got chosen,
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why you never felt claimed
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By some passion or person
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that is never explained
Verse 6
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I come on quiet but I'm fierce as a lion
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Life will take us apart
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but we never stop trying
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To proceed as if whole and intact
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Dm
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Like I felt with your hand on my back
Interlude 1
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Dm
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Verse 7
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Nothing can catch me
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when I'm moving fast
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Even those rattling chains of the past
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So I'll go like that arrow
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but with nowhere to land
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I am losing velocity, height and command
Verse 8
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We all hit the ground,
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we all fall from the sky
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We burn up, we break up,
we wreck and we cry
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But we're bound up together by
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sight and by pact
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That begins with the touch of your hand on
Outro 1
my back
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Am
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C
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Am
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