[kj] Sehr OT - Lyrics referring to "hands",

[Alexander Smith]

"You Need Hands" by Malcolm McLaren/Sex Pistols (on the GREAT ROCK N'  
ROLL SWINDLE soundtrack)
"Hands Across the Water" by the Mission (dreadful song)
"Touched by the Hand of God" by New Order

Alex in NYC




On Mar 29, 2008, at 5:24 PM, sade1 wrote:


>   Any lyrics off the top of your heads [that you've heard - no  

> Googling] that directly

> or indirectly refer to hands or something (only)  hands can do?

>   I can mostly only think of 80s songs that do (and Seconds and The  

> Cutter allude

> very well to hands, IMHO) but i don't think it was some trend then.

>

> Nothing to struggle over, just whatever  comes to mind. thanks.

>

> Seconds* - Human League

> The Cutter** - Echo and the Bunnymen

> Lay your Hands - Thompson Twins

> Guns of Brixton - The Clash

> Blue Monday - New Order

> Drowning Man - u2

> Blaze of Glory - The Alarm

> Won't you Hold my Hand - King

>

> Sam's Town - The Killers

> All these things I've done - The Killers

> Blood on your Hands -- Killing Joke

> Club Foot - Kasabian

> Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- ???

>

>

> * your knuckles white as your fingers curl...

> ** watch the fingers close / when the hands are cold...

>

> 2 of the better allusions to hands, IMO

>

> [btw, somewhere on this email there's a bilingual pun... i just  

> caught it]

>

>

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>

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