| Em | |
| Y | ou know he got the cure |
| Em | |
| You | know he went astray |
| C | G | |
| He | used to stay awake to drive the | dreams he had away |
| Em | C | G | |
| He | wanted to believe in the | hands of love |
| Em | |
| His | head, it felt heavy as he came across the land |
| C | G | |
| The | dogs started crying like a | broken hearted man |
| Em | C | G | |
| At the | howlin' wind, at the | howlin' wind |
| Em | |
| He went | deeper into black, deeper into white |
| C | G | |
| We | see the stars shine like | nails in the night |
| Em | |
| He felt the | healing, healing, healing, healing |
| C | G | |
| Hands of | love like the stars, shiny, | shiny from above |
| Em | |
| H | and in the pocket, finger in the steel |
| C | |
| The | pistol weighed heavy |
| G | |
| In his | heart he could feel was |
| Em | |
| b | eating Beating, beating, beating |
| C | G | |
| Oh my | love, oh my love, oh my | love, oh my love |
| Em | |
| S | o the hands that build can also pull down... |
| Em | C | G | |
| The | hands of love |