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In Feet For Hands, Everything Everything put themselves in the shoes of British policeman PC David Rathband, who was shot and blinded in 2010 by gunman Raoul Moat whilst he sat in his patrol car near Newcastle. Rathband struggled with his disability, taking his own life less than two years after the...
[Verse 1]
There were reasons to get out of my bed, eh
Slipping in and out of what you call life
And it plays again and I can see him ending
On a pale road and I died that day
Makes no difference if they're open or closed
When you shake my hand, I'm a hero, I'm a hero
And I'm dealing, yeah, I'm dealing fine
[Chorus]
I think I've had enough of all the lights on Earth
I think I'm done with answering the phone, eh
I pour myself a bridge and now I can't go back
I think it's gonna happen pretty soon
[Verse 2]
Dealing for the longest time
And I'm sorry that I've made it this far
When you think of me, don't remember this
Not a slow wane of a blinded man
And the faces of my family fade
Now as featureless as an orange, as an orange to me
So tired, don't you let me go
[Chorus]
I think I've had enough of all the lights on Earth
I think I'm done with answering the phone, eh
I pour myself a bridge and now I can't go back
I think it's gonna happen pretty soon
[Verse 3]
You ask, "How many fingers am I holding up?"
I don't know what is taking me so long
Let's get up off the floor and use our feet for hands
I see double, I see double yellow lines
[Verse 4]
And I can see us laid out by a waterfall
Don't remember, don't remember me this way, eh-eh-eh, eh
But what makes her so sure that there's a world outside?
Yeah, she really had me going for a while, eh-eh-eh, eh
[Outro]
I won't forget you
I won't forget you
I won't forget you
Feet for Hands was written by Jeremy Pritchard & Michael Spearman & Alex Robertshaw & Jonathan Higgs.
Feet for Hands was produced by Everything Everything & David Kosten.
Everything Everything released Feet for Hands on Mon Jan 14 2013.
“It was a really horrible tragedy,” says Higgs, “and it touched me in a way that nothing else…” He tails off, temporarily lost for words.
“I don’t know why particularly that story,” he says, eventually. “I guess it’s because I come from that part of the world and it just felt very real. There was a...