{title: Hands clean}
{artist: Alanis Morissette}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 100}
{key: C}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[C] if it weren't for [D]your maturity, [Bm]none of this would have [C]happened
[C] if you weren't so [D]wise beyond your [Bm]years I would have been able to con-[C]trol myself
[C] if it weren't for [D]my attention you [Bm]wouldn't have been suc-[C]cessful
[C] and if, if it [D]weren't for me you would [Bm]never have amounted to [C]very much
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{start_of_part: Pre-Chorus 1}
[C] ooo-[D]ooh this [Bm]could be [C]messy, [C] but [D]you don't [Bm]seem to [C]mind
[C] ooo-[D]ooh don't go [Bm]telling every-[C]body, and [C]over-[D]look this [Bm]supposed [C]crime
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 1}
[C] we'll fast [D]forward to a [Bm]few years [C]later
[C] and no-one [D]knows except the [Bm]both of [C]us
[C] and I have [D]honored your re-[Bm]quest for [C]silence
and [C]you've [D]washed your [Bm]hands clean of [C]this
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{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
[C] you're essentially an [D]employee and I [Bm]like you having to de-[C]pend on me
[C] you're a kind of [D]protégé and one [Bm]day you'll say you learned all you [C]know from me
[C] I know you de-[D]pend on me like a [Bm]young thing would go to a [C]guardian
[C] I know you [D]sexualize me like a [Bm]young thing would and I [C]think I like it
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{start_of_part: Pre-Chorus 2}
[C] ooo-[D]ooh this [Bm]could be [C]messy, [C] but [D]you don't [Bm]seem to [C]mind
[C] ooo-[D]ooh don't go [Bm]telling every-[C]body, and [C]over-[D]look this [Bm]supposed [C]crime
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{chorus: Chorus 2}
{start_of_part: Bridge}
[Em] what part of our [C]history is re-in-[G]vented and under rug [D]swept
[Em] what part of your [C]memory is se-[G]lective and tends to for-[D]get
what's with the distance, it seems so obvious
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{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
[C] just make sure you don't [D]tell on me e-[Bm]specially to members of your [C]family
[C] we best keep [D]this to ourselves and [Bm]not tell any member of our [C]inner posse
[C] I wish I could [D]tell the world cos you're [Bm]such a pretty thing when you're [C]done up properly
[C] I might want to [D]marry you, one day if you'd [Bm]watch that weight and you [C]keep your firm body
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{start_of_part: Pre-Chorus 3}
[C] ooo-[D]ooh this [Bm]could be [C]messy, [C] but [D]I don't [Bm]seem to [C]mind
[C] ooo-[D]ooh don't go [Bm]telling every-[C]body, and [C]over-[D]look this [Bm]supposed [C]crime
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{chorus: Chorus 3}
{start_of_part: Pre-Chorus 4}
[C] ooo-[D]ooh this [Bm]could be [C]messy, [C] but [D]I don't [Bm]seem to [C]mind
[C] ooo-[D]ooh don't go [Bm]telling every-[C]body, and [C]over-[D]look this [Bm]supposed [C]crime
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{chorus: Chorus 4}
{start_of_part: Outtro}
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
[C] [D] [Bm] [C]
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