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Delicate Hands Lyrics
you play hard to want
you’re hard to crumble up
I belong to someone already gone
hard to want
you’re hard to crumble up
I belong to someone gone before I was born
she’s was gone
she was gone before I was born
the last time we crossed
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
you have delicate hands
and I know why
you have delicate hands
and I know why
there’s nothing left to do
not when you
have the ocean for a view
the last time we crossed
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
the weight of this hairstyle is making me lazy
I think I’m going to leave it up all night
I want to feed you butter-rum candy
but someone beat you to me
beat you to me
someone beat you to me
the last time we crossed
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
the last time we crossed
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
you’re hard to crumble up
I belong to someone already gone
hard to want
you’re hard to crumble up
I belong to someone gone before I was born
she was gone before I was born
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
and I know why
you have delicate hands
and I know why
not when you
have the ocean for a view
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
I think I’m going to leave it up all night
I want to feed you butter-rum candy
but someone beat you to me
beat you to me
someone beat you to me
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
I held you under
wanting to feel you
wanting to breathe
and I thought
you wanted to feel like breathing
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I like the line "Someone beat you to me". It has a double meaning, one is the obvious, he is already with someone but the second is that she was beaten emotionally or however, to the point where she cannot have a relationship.
I held you under wanting to feel you wanting to breathe and I thought you wanted to feel like breathing
I think what he is saying is that he tested her by causing her pain, to see her reaction, what he got from doing that is that she still could feel pain.
Such a wonderful song. The Long Winters are seriously great.
"You have delicate hands and I know why." Why? I've always wondered. I love the line "the weight of this hairstyle is making me lazy."
What do you think is meant by "I belong to someone gone before I was born"?
These lyrics are so emotive. They're amazing.
I've created my own artificial meaning to the song, and most of the lyrics have to be stretched to make it all work, but it really gets to me if he's singing about a twin sister who died at birth.
For some reason this song always makes me imagine a person drowning another person, "Last time we crossed I held you under wanting to feel you wanting to breathe." That somehow they get off on the idea of the other person struggling to breathe.