Rocky Votolato – Hospital Handshakes (Guitar)

Piano Intro:
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           C#m            E   A
Is this an exercise or an exorcism?

     C#m            E           A
Firework pilots fly towards the explosion

       C#m                                    E      A             B
In the sky, the bright coloured lights suffer in the horizon of my mind

                       A           B
I'm a patient with no patience

          A   B
Hospital handshakes

C#m             A               C#m             A
We must each be broken if we're ever to be made new again

     E              A           B         (F#m)
The current of this currency is pain

             C#m
Painting me golden

                      C#m
You're a ghost in the sun

       E          A
A massacre on the winter

       C#m
Silent sea, deafening defeat

         E        A
Drowning in minor seconds

            C#m                               E              A         B
Til there's no line between the truth and the lies we're all hiding behind

                                  A
If it's a choice, what will we decide?

               B                          A       B
When we choose sides between the darkness and the light

C#m             A               C#m             A
We must each be broken if we're ever to be made new again

     E              A           B         (F#m)
The current of this currency is pain

             C#m
Painting me golden

              A
Painting me golden

          C#m  (G#m) (F#m)
Painting me

A           B                   C#m                      G#m         A
She held my hands and walked me back from the ledge where I was standing

A         B             C#m              E
My father sent me to my mother to be punished no longer

    A                 B
I'm gonna heal up now from this trauma

     C#m
I've closed the window

G#m              A     B
Shortened the shadows

A          C#m - E- A
Hospital handshakes

C#m             A               C#m             A
We must each be broken if we're ever to be made new again

     E              A           B         (F#m)
The current of this currency is pain

             C#m
Painting me golden

              A
Painting me golden

          C#m  (G#m) (F#m)
Painting me

            C#m
Painting me gold