Hands Clean

[Verse]
A#                  C
If it weren't for your maturity
 Am                    A#
None of this would have happened
    A#            
  If you weren't so
     C
wise beyond your years
 Am               
  I would have been
        A#
able to control myself
 A#                 C
If it weren't for my attention
      Am                   A#
You wouldn't have been successful
            A#               C
And if, if it weren't for me
                     
  You would never have
   Am              A#
amounted to very much


[Pre-Chorus]
 A#   C    Am           A#
Ooo-ooh this could be messy
    A#  C       Am      A#
But you don't seem to mind
 A#   C            Am           A#
Ooo-ooh don't go telling everybody
    A#     C          Am      A#
And overlook this supposed crime


[Chorus]
A#           C     
  We'll fast forward
       Am         A#
to a few years later
    A#       C   
  And no-one knows
            Am       A#
except the both of us
    A#        C     
  And I have honoured
        Am           A#
your request for silence
    A#       C         
  And you've washed your
  Am         A#
hands clean of this


[Verse]
A#                    C
You're essentially an employee
    Am                
  And I like you having
    A#
to depend on me
A#                C
You're a kind of protege
    Am                     
  And one day you'll say you
         A#
learned all you know from me
A#            C
I know you depend on me
       Am          
  Like a young thing
             A#
would go to a guardian
A#              C
I know you sexualize me
       Am                
  Like a young thing would
       A#
and I think I like it


[Pre-Chorus]
 A#   C    Am           A#
Ooo-ooh this could get messy
    A#  C       Am      A#
But you don't seem to mind
 A#   C            Am           A#
Ooo-ooh don't go telling everybody
    A#     C          Am      A#
And overlook this supposed crime


[Chorus]
A#           C     
  We'll fast forward
       Am         A#
to a few years later
    A#       C   
  And no-one knows
            Am       A#
except the both of us
    A#        C     
  And I have honoured
        Am           A#
your request for silence
    A#       C         
  And you've washed your
  Am         A#
hands clean of this


[Bridge]
Dm               A#         
  What part of our history is
      F                    C
re-invented and under rug swept?
Dm                A#        
  What part of your memory is
   F                       C
selective and tends to forget?

What's with the distance it seems so obvious?


[Verse]
A#                 
  Just make sure you
       C
don't tell on me
  Am                  
  Especially to members
         A#
of your family
A#           C
We best keep this to ourselves
    Am                  
  And not tell any member
        A#
of our inner posse
A#             C
I wish I could tell the world
    Am                         
  Cos you're such a pretty thing
  A#
when you're done up properly
A#              C
I might want to marry you, one day
    Am                     
  If you'd watch that weight
    A#
and keep your firm body


[Pre-Chorus]
 A#   C    Am           A#
Ooo-ooh this could be messy
    A#  C       Am      A#
But you don't seem to mind
 A#   C            Am           A#
Ooo-ooh don't go telling everybody
    A#     C          Am      A#
And overlook this supposed crime


[Chorus]
A#           C     
  We'll fast forward
       Am         A#
to a few years later
    A#       C   
  And no-one knows
            Am       A#
except the both of us
    A#        C     
  And I have honoured
        Am           A#
your request for silence
    A#       C         
  And you've washed your
  Am         A#
hands clean of this


[Pre-Chorus]
 A#   C    Am           A#
Ooo-ooh this could get messy
    A#  C       Am      A#
But you don't seem to mind
 A#   C            Am           A#
Ooo-ooh don't go telling everybody
    A#     C          Am      A#
And overlook this supposed crime


[Chorus]
A#           C     
  We'll fast forward
       Am         A#
to a few years later
    A#       C   
  And no-one knows
            Am       A#
except the both of us
    A#        C     
  And I have honoured
        Am           A#
your request for silence
    A#       C         
  And you've washed your
  Am         A#
hands clean of this