Boy With (100) Hands Lyrics - Red Devil Dawn - Crooked Fingers

A boy with one hundred hands 

Came groping through the dark 

And stumbled upon the light you gave off 

And fell gently into your arms 

One hand it held the earth 

Another stirred the sea 

One handed you a key and said: 

We've come to set you free 

'Cause you're better than the world you live in 

The gossips and the clowns 

Deep in your darkest dungeon singing 

So no one can hear a sound 

So no hand can come to pick you up 

And no hand can pull you down 

I drew a picture book 

With pictures green and blue 

And sent them off to a museum 

All this I did for you 

But one hand had used your heart 

Held beating in the light 

With a heart like that one hundred hands 

Could never paint quite right 

'Cause you're better than the world you live in 

And nobody told you so 

Trapped in your ghetto gardening 

With no helping hand to grow 

Just one hand to hold you in my heart 

And one hand to let you go