Beginning in July 2019, Reddit users who’d purchased Big Thief’s 2019 record “U.F.O.F.” began to report they’d received blank 7" records from 4AD. Eventually it was confirmed that the songs were “Love in Mine” and this song, “Two Hands.”
Although originally speculated to be a cut track from U.F.O.F...
[Verse 1]
You somehow let me down
Both hands and a gentleman
You could not take me through
New plans or tell me who
New friends, I can make some too
I know
You somehow took me in
Both arms, my marked up skin
Two hands, places you had been
I needed
[Chorus]
And the more that we try
To figure through the answers
To repeat ourselves
To deny, deny
[Verse 2]
Now you call my bluff
All clear and it gets so rough
Stone-faced in the light
The air and the jagged bite
Cold air, the wisdom of the night
Between us
[Chorus]
And the more that we try
To figure through the answers
To repeat ourselves
To deny, deny
To deny, deny, deny
[Verse 3]
Somehow we exist
In the folds, and now we'll kiss
Both hands, the mystery before us
She's reaching
But I could not take you through
New plans, or tell you who
New friends, you can make some too
I know
Two Hands was written by Adrianne Lenker.
Two Hands was produced by Andrew Sarlo.