the best songs ever: the lost years

[gabrielle]

More of the grungy Seattle sound.  This was released as a single in 1990, from the 1989 album Louder Than Love,  Soundgarden's first charting album.  





"Don't touch me!

Hands all over the eastern border.
You know what? 
I think we're falling from composure...
Hands all over western culture.
Ruffling feathers; turning eagles into vultures...
Yeah, into vultures...

Got my arms around my baby brother!
Put your hands away, you're gonna kill your mother, 
gonna kill your mother, kill your mother, and I love her!
Yeah, and I love her!

Hands all over the coastal waters.
The crew men thank her, then lay down their oily blanket...
Hands all over the inland forest.
In a striking motion, trees fall down like dying soldiers...
Yeah, like dying soldiers...

Got my arms around my baby brother!
Put your hands away, you're gonna kill your mother, 
gonna kill your mother, kill your mother, and I love her!
Yeah, and I love her, and I love her!

Hands all over the peasant's daughter.
She's our bride, she'll never make it out alive...
Hands all over words I utter.
Change them into things you want to, like balls of clay...
Put your hands away...

Yeah, put your hands away, put your hands away!
You're gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother, 
gonna kill your mother, and I love her...
And I love her, and I love her, I love her!
She loves me... yeah... yeah..."