With My Hands

Verse 1

Fingerpicked guitar and voice

Your father never heard me singNever heard a word I saidSix months of night school, loveBooks of hands across the bedI practiced on the mirror

Pre-Chorus

My fingers shook like I was seventeenHe watched me like a hawk

Chorus

I asked him with my handsMay I love her for lifeHe cried before I finishedI asked him with my hands

Verse 2

You were standing in the doorwayDidn't know that I could signYou read every word I madeThen you signed back, yes

Pre-Chorus

My fingers shook like I was seventeenHe watched me like a hawk

Chorus

Soft piano and strings enter

I asked him with my handsMay I love her for lifeHe cried before I finishedI asked him with my hands

Bridge

Falsetto, then building to a gritty belt

Some words are too big for voicesThey need both of my hands

Final Chorus

Full band, voice tearing open

I asked him with my handsMay I love her for lifeHe cried before I finishedI asked him with my handsI asked him with my handsMay I love her for lifeYou cried before I finishedI asked him with my hands