Kid Gloves

I think "Buy me to the wind, you talk me out of standstill" is "Body to the wind, you taught me how to stand still".

I'm not sure about either of the above suggestions for the line beginning 'It's a dedication...', but I can't come up with any better suggestion.

There are obvious political overtones, and parts of it make a lot of sense being about his father. It's probably mostly a mix of those two ideas.

I'm still not 100% sure about the meaning of the hook line "You have to touch me with kid gloves". It makes perfect sense just as long as I don't think about it too hard. If I try to solidify what I think it means, it seems to fall apart. Great hook though, and this is probably the best song I've heard from the new album.

I think it's "I weigh myself, yes I'm a vanity whore" which fits with the line later "I hope to measure you some day". Also I think the line beginning with "It's a dedication" might end "so real and unflinching" or something like that.

Revised lyrics:

Listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you These are the cries of the dying breed Politics of hate you'd never get around to Blood over brains that we never need I saw you in the back, studied and relaxed Fixed in the pose like a silent stone Serenity intact, it's the feeling that I lack Life in the floors of a stable home

I can trace you in paper like the sketch of a smell You're a breath to the runner in contest In close to the nerve, but you rest so far away And I have to give it up someday

Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me Pretending in a love like this I have no choice but to put you in back of me Don't cover my footsteps Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader You're dead weight all right, that's fine, but get your hands off me You have to touch me with kid gloves You have to touch me with kid gloves

Buy me to the wind, you talk me out of standstill I never felt so alive at once Finger to the quick, yes I can feel your hand still Pressed to the drain of the common months

Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself Yes I'm a vanity whore

Because it's race and it's power at the center of life We are blind to the people who need us But you're the kind of person who could understand that fault And I hope to measure you someday

Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me Pretending in a love like this I have no choice but to put you in back of me Don't cover my footsteps Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader Dead weight all right, that's fine, but get your hands off me You have to touch me with kid gloves You have to touch me with kid gloves

Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself Yes I'm a vanity whore

Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore When you compromise yourself like that It's a dedication, so willing on infringing (?)

Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader Dead weight all right, that's fine, but get your hands off me You have to touch me with kid gloves You have to touch me with kid gloves

thanks man, I'll take a listen and change them again.

question to the rest: do you think it's an attempt at a political song? or is that too surface-level?

It's about his father.

voxtrot is one of my favorite bands... ramesh's lyrics are prefect.

"with kid gloves" means with caution or careful consideration... so "you have to touch me with kid gloves" makes sense.

This song is amazing. I always thought it was about a break-up...

This band is amazing. These lyrics rule!

I got the father thing, too.

I can see the father reference too.