With Yo Heart Not Yo Hands Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pentalarc 

Cover art for With Yo Heart Not Yo Hands lyrics by Melvins

Okay. . .

Try This:

With your heart not your hands With your heart not your hands Do you understand, baby Baby love me up

Lost in a woman My loss is yours You feel my power You call me a monkey grip oooh I'm feeling Losing your mind Still, I'm stoned, so I can't deny The muscle you chop You're annoyed one time

With your heart not your hands Baby love me love me love love Do you understand baby Get me WIth your heart not your hands You know baby, baby Crime is the get low Cuz it's yours that's for sure Hit me! You do feel my power ANd you call me a cassanova Pool full of poison You'll make this place something Still, I'm stoned, so I can't deny You bottle up the bottle you know YEah

With your heart not your hands Baby, love me, love Don't ask my name, man, I am free, I am free I make it on my own time Look at me, look at me And all my time is my own time So I don't want to know

And I'm telling you NEver go home alone But only have it one time

With your heart not your hands Baby baby baby WIth your heart not your hands Baby Do you understand? Baby, love me, love me You can stand, you can stand


First of all, this is a Malfunkshun cover.

Secondly, here's what I think it's about:

It's from the point of view of a guy who has been in a long term, but non-serious friends-with-benefits situation with someone. They've always just been around each other, casual, just-sex kind of way. But now, he has fallen in love with her, but can't tell her.

First he tells the listener that his problem is the same as the problem for everyone else who can't tell someone that they love them. Then, in his head, he thinks about explaining the situation to her, but also has low self esteem, and ends up thinking about the fact he considers both her, and himself, to be lowlifes.

Kind of a weird, sad song, actually, but the song itself. . .amazing. Perfect noisy sludge. Think Crowbar meets Sonic Youth!