The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Yeah, but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet blaze
Can't you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now
We spies
We slow hands
Put the weights around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now
I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice because the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You make me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you
Can you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now
We spies, yeah
We slow hands
You put the weights around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
Killer, for hire you know not yourself
We spies
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies
Intimate slow hands killer
For hire you know not yourself
We spies
Intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around herself
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet blaze
Can't you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now
We spies
We slow hands
Put the weights around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now
I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice because the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You make me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you
Can you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now
We spies, yeah
We slow hands
You put the weights around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
Killer, for hire you know not yourself
We spies
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah
We slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies
Intimate slow hands killer
For hire you know not yourself
We spies
Intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around herself
Lyrics submitted by A-jax, edited by kingofworld, TheBronze
Slow Hands Lyrics as written by Daniel Alexander Kessler Carlos Andres Dengler
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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yuck. this song blows. everything about it is so boring. i've loved interpol since turn on the bright lights, and pretty much every other song on antics is great, but this song fucking SUCKS. the guitar and bass lines are so repetitive, the lyrics are so immature. "You make me want to pick up a guitar And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you." UGH. how can anyone hear that line and not cringe. interpol is still a great band, take you on a cruise for example is fucking fantastic, but this song should've never left the cutting room. it's so obviously a mainstream-driven single, and it's so obviously inferior to their other work. it does sound like a franz ferdinand song, and that IS a bad thing. that means it sounds good the first time but sucks ass after 3 or more listens, just like franz ferdinand. so many people like it because they hear it on the radio and it's so accessible, and i hate them for it. but who i hate ever more is other hardcore interpol fans who will not fucking admit that this song sucks because they're such fanboys. interpol could make a Cher cover album and these assholes would be all over it. dammit i hate people, and i hate this song. go to hell Slow Hands
I do understand everything that you're saying and respect your dislike for the song, but I think 'immaturity' was a positive factor of the lyrics. Love is really a simple, happy, and at times cheesy thing, and that is what that line you quoted was portraying.<br /> <br /> I personally really like this song, but maybe that's only because I've never heard it on the radio, and when a song is overplayed it does make it annoying to listen to ever again. xD