Slow Hands Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Hitterdog 

Cover art for Slow Hands lyrics by Interpol

This sounds like my life "Yeah, but nobody searches. Nobody cares somehow. When the loving that you've wasted comes raining from a hapless cloud" - OK my logic is probably failing and hardly meaningful but to me it's like nobody is searching; there's nobody out there for you. Your loving is just pointless / wasted.

"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 place." - reminds me of such my late-to-come but short-lived first love who no longer wants connection at all. But she was all I ever had, everybody else is "not searching".

"Can't you see what you've done to my heart and soul? It's a wasteland now." -Well SHE can't. That's for sure; it's all one-sided hate. But now my heart is just a "wasteland".

"I submit my incentive is romance... The hurting is so painless... from the distance..." -Still hurting you; maybe you're keeping it inside. Your incentive is romance. You just want somebody to love, that's your incentive, all your motives are good, but it doesn't seem to mean anything.

"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 of ways that I love you. Can't you see what you've done to my heart and soul? It's a wasteland now." - Missing the good old days. Can't you see what you've done to me?

Probably failing logic, but hey, I can easily relate to this. I just don't quite get the chorus. Spies are very secretive though, and unknown, just like me.

It's definitely got something to do with love, that's for sure. Keep adding thoughts, guys.