
Hands Clean
Alanis Morissette
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Tom:
Riff1 (Intro / verse)
Cadd9 D/B Cadd9 Dsus2
[Intro] (Riff1) Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
[Verse1]
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened___
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
If you weren't so wise beyond your years I would've been able to control myself
Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
(drums)
If it weren't for my attention you wouldn't have been successful and if
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
If it weren't for me you would never have amounted to very much
Lead1 (clean guitar)
Lead2 (distortion guitar)
[Pre-chorus] (Lead1, Lead2)
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
Oo______ooh____ this could_ be_ mes__sy___ but
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
You_________ don't__ seem_ to_ mi_____ind
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
Ooh_________ don't go telling_ everybody__ and
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
///
O___ver_look__ this supposed crime___
[Próxima Parte]
Lead3 (Chorus)
[Chorus] (Lead3)
C5 D5 B5 C5
We'll fast forward to a few_ years_ la_ter__
C5 D5 B5 C5
And no one knows except the both_ of_ us___
C5 D5 B5 C5
And I have honored your request_ for_ silence__
C5 D5 B5 C5
And you__'ve washed_ your_ hands_ clean of this__
[Verse]
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me
Cadd9 Dsus2
You're kind of my protégé
D/B Cadd9
and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me and
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
I know you sexualize me like a young thing but I think I like
[Pre-chorus] (Lead1, Lead2)
[Chorus] (Lead3)
[Bridge]
Em C G D
What part_ of our history's_ reinvented_ and under rug swept_?
Em C G D
What part_ of your memory_ is selective_ and tends to forget_?
D
what with this distance it seems so obvious?
[Verse]
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
Just make sure you don't tell on me especially to members of your family
Cadd9 Dsus2 D/B Cadd9
We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse
Cadd9 Dsus2
I wish I could tell the world cuz
D/B Cadd9
you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly
Cadd9 Dsus2
I might want to marry you one day
D/B Cadd9
if you watch that weight and keep your firm body
[Repeat Pre-chorus]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Outro] (Lead3, little bit piano)
C5 D5 B5 C5 D5 B5 C5 D5 B5 C5 D5 B5 C5
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