Name: Hands [Single]
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: Single by UK singer/songwriter Michael Gilham recorded at "Purple Squares Studio" in Shirley, Southampton.

Hands [Single]

by Michael Gilham

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Single by UK singer/songwriter Michael Gilham recorded at "Purple Squares Studio" in Shirley, Southampton.

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[Verse 1]
I don't care what I have seen
Or what I may have been
It's not what defines me

So nail me to your crucifix
Your Sacrificial Lamb
Your artificial Jesus

[Pre-chorus 1]
and maybe one day, I'll understand
what it takes to be a man
what it takes to sew the land you're on

and as Cain did unto Abel
and Aesop wrote it in fable
I'm back from the bowels of "The Cat's Cradle"

[Chorus 1]
and I don't honour the land you stand your feet on
'Cause acres of it have been burned from the blinding dawn
and it's only a matter of minutes before the lights go out
and when they do you'll see that make this town

[Verse 2]
Plastered in commercial garb
She tries to tempt the bard
to forfeit her his art

and it's a shame how money lends
Half-Hearted, weathered friends
to Pauper's bitter ends

[Pre-Chorus 2]
and maybe one day, life will erase
all the pain from my embrace
and throw it all away

So you don't learn all of my intentions
Think yourself worth redemption
and reach Nirvana through divine intervention

[Verse 2] (x2)
and as I cry from the lives you've taken hold on
the Hanging Gardens fall in Babylon
but it's only a matter of hours before Gomorrah burns down
but don't look back as it's just salt and brimstone now

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released August 13, 2015
Studio: Purple Squares Studio

Album Art: Jamie Norton

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Michael Gilham Southampton, UK

Canterbury, UK-based pianist singer-songwriter.

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