Slow Cruel Hands Of Time by Band Of Horses
Key: F#mF#m | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro:  F#m    E    C#m   D    Bm
A                                               Bm
The binding of time getting stuck in my mind is a boat to row
A                                                            Bm
Two hours later I?m back in my neighborhood where everything just stopped
A                                                          Bm
It still looks the same they remember my name stepping in for a cupful
A                                                         Bm
There?s a big city man I used to rumble with him back in high school
D               C#m           Bm
The slow cruel hands of time
D               C#m     Bm
Turn you into molten lava oh my
A                                                      Bm
A place on the right you can stop for awhile, look out for the policeman
A                                                      Bm
There?s no street lamps, only three buildings and one of them?s vacant
A                                                      Bm
It?s taken all day, the pack?s feeling heavy and soon the night
A                                                   Bm
Backwards down the mountain the axle is grinding pulling into the wrong drive
D            C#m      Bm
The sky is in the yard,
D                               C#m   Bm
Stringy cotton candy is the fog
F#m            E      C#m      D
The slow climb, the hard fall
F#m   E         C#m                  D
Sometime?s I don?t want it at all
F#m                      E            C#m             D
I?ve done this so long, it?s something I ought to know
Bm   A
So long
Instumental Break:      A         Bm  (x2)
A                                               Bm
Finally up, all the peace is disrupted and the birds fly
A                                                       Bm
Trapped for a moment, the sheriff?s department got the wrong guy
D              C#m     Bm
The town?s revealed below
D              C#m         Bm
Visible wind through the fog
D              C#m       Bm
The slow cruel hands of time
D                C#m        Bm
Turning you back into a child
F#m    E    C#m   D    Bm
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