Hands All Over

Album: Louder Than Love (1989)
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  • Don't touch me
    Hands all over the eastern border
    You know what I think we're falling
    From composure
    Hands all over western culture
    Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures
    Into vultures

    Got my arms around baby brother
    Put your hands away
    Your gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother
    Kill your mother
    And I love her, yeah
    I love her

    Hands all over the coastal waters
    The crew men thank her
    Then lay down their oily blanket
    Hands all over the inland forest
    In a striking motion trees fall down like dying soldiers
    Yeah like dying soldiers

    Got my arms around baby brother
    Put your hands away
    Your gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother
    Kill your mother
    And I love her, yeah
    I love her
    I love her

    Hands all over the peasants daughter
    She's our bride she'll never make it out alive
    Hands all over words I utter
    Change them into things you want to
    Like balls of clay
    Put your hands away

    Yeah, put your hands away
    Put your hands away
    Gonna kill your mother
    Gonna kill your mother
    Gonna kill your mother
    And I love her
    I love her
    I love her
    I love her
    And she loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Writer/s: Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Ringgo from Montclair, CaCoolest earth conscious song ever!! K, maybe it's the only cool one there is.
  • Daniel from Douglasville, Gathis song is about how america cant stay out of other people's ( or countries) business. baby brother = the little man, and the mother = nature maybe? it then goes on to talk about nature being abused in more concrete terms.
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