Hold Her Down Lyrics
until she stops kicking
take her arms and hold her down...
until she she stops moving
but what the fuck
they've got nothing else they can do
and they've no reason
but still they come
would have a hard time facing you
this crime
the shame of what a man can do
until she stops screaming
take her arms and hold her down...
until she stops breathing
but what the fuck
they've got nothing else they can do
and they've no reason
but still they come
would have a hard time facing you
this crime
the shame of what a man can do
of all the hell that you've been through
all they've stolen
all we took from you
This song is about a woman being raped. I like it becuase it's not common to see a man's perspective on this. Its beautiful to hear a man say how shameful it is for a man to be so brutal
They say what few have the balls to say, and I admire them for saying it. Sometimes I can't listen to this song, but when I can it just grips me, I guess because I can feel some of my own anger in this song. And maybe I wish I had had someone to stand up for me like that then.
Don't know what to say on this one, it just gives me shivers. i know now how people feel when I share some of my poems, it's too real.too close. There's a line missing "I wanna die, for the hell that you've been through" before "take the night back..." For awhile i played this song to death, i don't know maybe in a way it was just that it spoke so much of what i felt at the time, and it was like even if I wasn't able to talk about it someone understood.
I love this song. The way it sounds, what it means, everything.
"And I Would have a hard time facing you. This crime; The shame of what a man can do. I want to die For all the Hell that you've been through." Brilliance, to say the least.
you have actually caught the meaning of the song. It is not about the rape itself, it is about how Glen imagines what happend to the girl and now he has a hard facing this girl after what she has been thru.
you have actually caught the meaning of the song. It is not about the rape itself, it is about how Glen imagines what happend to the girl and now he has a hard facing this girl after what she has been thru.
Definitely not hard to figure this one out. Something that's interesting is that Glen Phillips uses the word f#%k in this song. Perhaps the only song he uses profanity in? Using such out of character language I think reflects his outrage at this profane act.
side note to MusicDragon-- in Glen's solo career he says he'd "cut off my whole f**king face" in the song Easier.
Disturbingly enough, the first time I ever heard this song was on a kid's music program, either on Nickelodean, or PBS or something like that. I was shocked when I heard the lyrics (they did bleep out the f word) but what were they thinking? I did like the song though, even though I didn't know what it was, so I did a lyric search to find it.
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This song is about rape...from a male perspective.
Mostly about the anger and frustration that it happens...and the inability to understand why anyone would do it...along with the embarrassment in men who would do such at thing.
It's a very simple and powerful song.
It's not JUST about rape, though (and gang rape, at that). They kill the girl ("hold her down until she stops breathing") at the end of it.
And I think we can take it a step further. The narrator knows the girl, at least a little. They're worried about her being able to ID them afterwards, and possibly having to be arrested and stand trial for it ("and I would have a hard time facing you...this crime...the shame of what a man can do"). I think that it's not until the rape is over that he realizes that there's no way out. They HAVE to kill her.
@daredevilcomic I don't think that's accurate... If you read the lyrics, it talks about the rapists as "they", not "us". I feel like when the person starts saying "I would have a hard time facing you" he's talking as an innocent man who had nothing to do with the crime, but is still so ashamed of what OTHER men could do, or did. :)
@daredevilcomic I don't think that's accurate... If you read the lyrics, it talks about the rapists as "they", not "us". I feel like when the person starts saying "I would have a hard time facing you" he's talking as an innocent man who had nothing to do with the crime, but is still so ashamed of what OTHER men could do, or did. :)
This song. This album was just like a preview of my future with the other songs and this one too. I was 12 when it came out and I’m still amazed how much it would be a soundtrack to my life and the title of the album “Fear” was a perfect to show me that I was really looking forward to a very dark and extremely difficult road through the relationships of my life and all the things I have been through the whole thing and It freaks me out for real