Hands All Over

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Hands All Over by Soundgarden

About Hands All Over

This is an environmental song. It's about the abuse of mother nature (blanketing the ocean with oil, the clear cutting of old growth forests). Then the lyrics go on to say, "Put your hands away, your gonna kill your mother," meaning the Earth. Back in 1989 Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell did an interview on MTV's Headbangers Ball with host Ricki Rachman (Ricki's first day on HB) and those were some of the things they mentioned. The video had a girl in it personifying Mother Earth. .

Hands All Over Lyrics

[00:31.20] Don't touch me
[01:04.16] Hands all over the eastern border
[01:09.12] You know what I think we're falling
[01:14.11] From composure
[01:19.44] Hands all over western culture
[01:24.47] Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures
[01:35.74] Into vultures
[01:39.40] Got my arms around baby brother
[01:45.17] Put your hands away
[01:47.65] Your gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother
[01:56.10] Kill your mother
[02:00.48] And I love her, yeah
[02:05.90] I love her
[02:22.16] Hands all over the coastal waters
[02:27.22] The crew men thank her
[02:29.88] Then lay down their oily blanket
[02:38.12] Hands all over the inland forest
[02:42.22] In a striking motion trees fall down like dying soldiers
[02:52.77] Yeah like dying soldiers
[02:58.13] Got my arms around baby brother
[03:03.29] Put your hands away
[03:05.69] Your gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother
[03:14.26] Kill your mother
[03:17.90] And I love her, yeah
[03:23.96] I love her
[03:28.81] I love her
[04:11.22] Hands all over the peasants daughter
[04:16.40] She's our bride she'll never make it out alive
[04:26.94] Hands all over words I utter
[04:31.70] Change them into things you want to
[04:36.72] Like balls of clay
[04:42.13] Put your hands away
[04:46.44] Yeah, put your hands away
[04:52.16] Put your hands away
[04:57.16] Gonna kill your mother
[05:00.03] Gonna kill your mother
[05:02.54] Gonna kill your mother
[05:07.17] And I love her
[05:12.29] I love her
[05:17.33] I love her
[05:22.81] I love her
[05:27.41] And she loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

From the album: A-Sides