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Hands

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Hands

Release date: 17th January 2020

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About This Track

'Hands' stands as the album's sole traditional rap track, built on playful keys and a pitched vocal sample. Miller questions his own behaviour across the verses, cycling through confession and deflection, moving from boasts about control and conquest to admissions of regret and self-sabotage. The chorus offers a counterpoint: an invitation to step back from the spiral, to take time away from the weight of it all, to imagine flying without ground beneath you. The song finds Miller caught between two impulses. He wants to stay behind the wheel, moving at full speed, needing nothing from anyone. But he also knows he's spent his life living with regrets, that he trips over things that haven't even happened yet, that his honesty often amounts to not making sense. The tension never resolves. Instead, it just keeps turning, cause and effect, action and consequence, the same patterns repeating.

"Hands" is a track by Mac Miller, from the album Circles, released 17th January 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Hands

[Intro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]

Yeah, why don't you wake up from your bad dreams?

When's the last time you took a little time for yourself?

There's no reason to be so down

Rather fly around like there's no ground

And I, I bet you wish you had these

'Cause carrying this weight'll break your glass knees

Yeah, don't need no chauffeur, fuck the backseat

No, I stay behind the wheel and never half-speed

[Verse]

Get the fuck out of my car, this ain't a taxi

They love to see me lonely, hate to see me happy

Call me what you want, she call me "daddy"

Got a knack for gettin' nasty, every day we keepin' tally, yeah

Ooh, it's true I want it badly

Hit the zoom, I be movin' like a athlete

(Now concentrate) No reason to be that upset

I'm busy trippin' 'bout some shit that still ain't even happen yet

I keep it honest as honesty gets

Don't know why I'm always talkin' if I'm not makin' sense

I've spent my life livin' with a lot of regrets

You throw me off my high horse, I'd probably fall to my death

(Bad behavior) It's obvious you're not on your best

I might just pull your card if it's on top of the deck

Give me, give me what I need and then I'm onto the next

That's what we callin' cause and effect

[Chorus]

Yeah, why don't you wake up from your bad dreams?

When's the last time you took a little time for yourself?

There's no reason to be so down

Rather fly around like there's no ground

And I, I bet you wish you had these

'Cause carrying this weight'll break your glass knees

Yeah, don't need no chauffeur, fuck the backseat

No, I stay behind the wheel and never half-speed

[Outro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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2020

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2020

—Hands
—I Can See
—Complicated
—Once a Day
—Blue World
—Surf
—Woods
—Circles
—Hand Me Downs
—Everybody
—That’s on Me

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Production & Engineering

Writer: Jon Brion, Mac Miller
Producer: Jon Brion, Mac Miller
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Associate Producer: Vic Wainstein
Hammond Organ: Jon Brion
Harmonium: Jon Brion
Mastering Engineer: Patricia Sullivan
Mixing Engineer: Greg Koller
Percussion: Jon Brion
Recording Engineer: Eric Caudieux, Greg Koller, Vic Wainstein
Video Director: Anthony Gaddis, Eric Tilford
Video Producer: language.la
Video Set Photographer: Justin Boyd (Photographer)

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