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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