Story Behind the Song 
We usually play this song last at our live performances.  It cooks.
Lyrics 
Hands 
 Sullivan, August 1990
 
 Ranchero speeding through stoplights 
 Amber and evil at sunset 
 In that town where the sheriff is the king
 
 Well did you think you were the only one 
 To make love in the moonlight 
 What's your excuse for that my childhood friend 
 
 When you fell upon the town there was laughter all around in the moonlight  
 Her cheeks had been caressed by the cool pale darkness of hands  
 You found her in the yard standing by a bonfire of her garments
 She'd been scraped out like a gourd by the cold sterile violence of hands
 And she cries when the child brigade marches by in the rain. . .
   
 When you returned home that summer
 Was it as late as then 
 When sullen and forlorn you found our your child had been stillborn 
 
 This was the information that floated all around that day  
 As the leaves blew around us and you lived it all over me in the courtyard 
 
 Fruit, God, Rot, Fear, Fruit, God, Rot, Fear. . .
 
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