HANDS CLEAN    (intro) (midi)    (sample)

 

    C – D – Bm – C

 

   C                          D                   Bm                                  C

1.   If it weren't for your maturity, none of this would have happened,

                                 D

    if you weren't so wise beyond your years,

   Bm                                         C

    I would've been able to control myself.

                             D                          Bm                                C

    If it weren't for my attention, you wouldn't have been successful, and if,

                            D                                             Bm                    C

   if it weren't for me, you would never have amounted to very much.

 

C      - D           Bm          C          - D           Bm         C

    O…oh, this could be messy, y..ou don't seem to mind.

    - D                  Bm               C                    D           Bm             C

O…oh, don't go telling everybody, and overlook this supposed crime.

                D                  Bm          C

We'll fast forward to a few years later,

                       D                       Bm       C

and no one knows except the both of us.

                    D                       Bm            C

And I have honoured your request for silence,

         /           D                 Bm              C

and you've washed your hands clean of this.

 

  C                                  D                        Bm                             C

2. You're essentially an employee, and I like you having to depend on me,

                                D                

    you're a kind of protégé,

                   Bm                                                    C

    and one day you'll say, you learned all you know from me,

                            D                          Bm                                   C

    I know you depend on me, like a young thing would to a guardian,

                        D                             Bm                                   C

    I know you sexualize me, like a young thing would and I think I like it.

 

+ CHORUS

 

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?

                                              D7

    What with this distance it seems so obvious?

 

   C                                         D

3.   Just make sure you don't tell on me,

         Bm                                       C

    especially to members of your family,

                            D

    we best keep this to ourselves,

           Bm                                       C

    and not tell any members of our inner posse.

                           D

    I wish I could tell the world,

                           Bm                                              C

    ‘cause you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly,

                               D

    I might want to marry you one day,

              Bm                                      C

    if you watch that weight and you keep your firm body.

 

+ CHORUS  + CHORUS   + C – D – Bm - C  (4x) ……

 

    (Alanis Morissette)