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Look At Your Hands Lyrics
I loved you once
But look at you now
You're in somebody else's bed
I loved you once
So I don't know how
You're with a man like that
You'd be better off dead
He don't care
He don't treat you right
It's not fair
I still want you at night
Can't you see you made a mistake girl
He treats you like dirt and I hate it
Na na na na na na lady look at your hands
You got two fat children and a drunken man
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like it
Ma ma ma ma baby look at your hands
You should have been my woman when you had the chance
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life now
He hits you once
He hits you twice
He don't care about the blood on his hands
But that's OK
'Cause it's his wife
"It's the only she understands" he says
Say you're gonna leave him
Say you're gonna try
But you're only talking
Oh I know you think I'm a young boy
But I'm good and I think we can make it
Na na na na na na lady look at your hands
You've got two fat children and a drunken man
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like it
Ma ma ma ma baby look at your hands
You should have been my woman when you had the chance
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life now
(Don't like your guy now)
Well excuse me baby but it's making me mad
The only one you want is the only one you'll never have
it's so sad
The only one you'll never have
It's too bad
Only one you'll never have
Na na na na na na lady look at your hands
You've got two fat children and a drunken man
And I bet you don't like your life now...
But look at you now
You're in somebody else's bed
I loved you once
So I don't know how
You're with a man like that
You'd be better off dead
He don't care
He don't treat you right
It's not fair
I still want you at night
Can't you see you made a mistake girl
He treats you like dirt and I hate it
You got two fat children and a drunken man
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like it
Ma ma ma ma baby look at your hands
You should have been my woman when you had the chance
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life now
He hits you twice
He don't care about the blood on his hands
But that's OK
'Cause it's his wife
"It's the only she understands" he says
Say you're gonna try
But you're only talking
Oh I know you think I'm a young boy
But I'm good and I think we can make it
You've got two fat children and a drunken man
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like it
Ma ma ma ma baby look at your hands
You should have been my woman when you had the chance
Betcha don't, betcha don't, betcha don't like your life now
(Don't like your guy now)
The only one you want is the only one you'll never have
it's so sad
The only one you'll never have
It's too bad
Only one you'll never have
You've got two fat children and a drunken man
And I bet you don't like your life now...
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I think it's important to note that the narrator of this song isn't just "writing off" his ex. He's obviously frustrated and angry about the situation that she's in, and I agree that there's a strong element of ridicule in the lyric and delivery. However, there's also a pretty obvious plea for her to run away with him, evidenced in the stanza that ends: "I know you think I'm a young boy, but I'm good and I think we can make it." Naive and misguided as that plea may be (the narrator himself even tempers it with skepticism, noting that the woman is "only talking" when she says she's going to leave), he's definitely got some (probably deluded) notion that they could still be together. I think the key to this song is that the narrator's anger rises out of his ongoing desire for the woman ("I still want you at night"). In my view, the frustration of that desire prompts him to vacillate between commensurately desperate expressions of ridicule and fantasies of rescuing his former lover.
I'm not a fan of this song. it a song about a guy, who is taking about his ex-girlfriends. it's more of a revenge song. he find out his ex's life is not going so well, and points out she could have been better off with him
This song I've always felt that George was making fun of someone that rejected him. The lyrics are playground, elementary and childish "na na na na an lady look at your hands" It is a stab in the back toward an ex-girlfriend. I've never like this one much. :-(
I actually love this song. The lyrics are quite childish, but I think the way he does it makes the song very good. And yeah, it's pretty obvious what this song is about.
yeah I don't really like the lyrical content of the song, but musically it's really great. I agree with fredwardjaydavies in that the narrator is really bitter and wants to "rescue" her but is also taunting her because she chose this man over him