Lyrics to
You Need Hands

This version of You Need Hands was released by Sex Pistols in 1979.

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You need hands to hold someone you care for….
When you fear…nobody wants to know you
You need hands to brush away the tears….

When you hold the brand new baby
You need tender hands to guide them all the way
You need hands to thank the Lord for living….
And forgiving us this day….

You need hands to show the world you’re happy
And you need hands when you have to stop the bus….
But the hands that we love so dear
Are the hands that we love to hear
Are the hands that You give to us…..
Everybody holds the hands that You give to us…

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About Lyrics and You Need Hands by Sex Pistols

When you decide to study the lyrics to You Need Hands, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Sex Pistols. Some of the lyrics to You Need Hands have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Sex Pistols and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to You Need Hands if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to You Need Hands" means the words set to the music of You Need Hands, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Sex Pistols. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to You Need Hands and the lyrics to You Need Hands are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Sex Pistols who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Need Hands, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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