Hands Away Lyrics
Will you be my man?
Serve it up, don't wait
Let's see about this ham
Oh, what happened?
Oh, what happened?
Home spun desperation's knowing
Inside your cover's always blown
About
“Hands Away” is a short slow burner off of Interpol’s Turn On the Bright Lights.
The song is about a homosexual who is into bondage. Banks had also stated that people don’t usually understand his humor.
Paul Banks told Q Magazine:
That’s from the standpoint of a homosexual into bondage.
Q&A
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It’s so absurdist, it’s an almost dreamy snapshot of a scenario that involves homosexuality, you know, like bondage and some weird sexual partnership which at the time I felt was very radical as a lyrical context for a rock song. And I felt like I gotta do this as this is crazy. As I’ve said, usually it’s Daniel that introduces a new song but that song I was the one introducing it. As for taking credits, like you said, that was more on recent interviews because our fourth record was written in a little different way from the others. I was more involved in the previous albums, but on the last one it was mainly Daniel and Carlos generating the music, presenting it to the band and then we just kinda put our touch on it. It’s not that I don’t feel comfortable taking credits, it’s just that I’m being honest that on our fourth record I was just less part of it than the other ones."
Paul Banks, in an interview.
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Obstacle 1
- 3.NYC
- 4.PDA
- 6.Hands Away
- 7.Obstacle 2
- 9.Roland
- 10.The New
- 11.Leif Erikson