U + Ur Hand

I am picking up a story-line where tnkerr left off on the practice write offered with this weeks OLWG prompts. Do yourself a favor and begin by reading tnkerr’s  Am I Here?.

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We sat on the porch, Casper and I, he telling me the sensational tale of a man who literally pulled himself from the muck by his bootstraps, and I making notes as he spoke, until the twilight of the evening sky became a low lying quilt of blazing gold and violet that wrapped itself around the slowly setting sun gently nestling her into the cradle of the Cerrillos, far off in the distance.

No longer a young man, the evening’s recitation took an early toll on Casper and we parted soon after the sun set, with a promise to meet up again the next day. 

I took a cheap hotel in town, settled onto the swayback mattress provided and delved into the notes I had taken over the course of the evening. It didn’t take long for me to realize that although Casper had set out to tell me the tale of his life, what he had ended up imparting upon me was not really a story of the accomplishments of a lone man at all, but rather the story of one man’s life forged from the dross he had been shackled with at birth, by a most remarkable woman. 

A woman he met one particularly lonely night, on the back-side of a biting put down line in a bar once called the Alamo.  A woman who burned him to the ground, and then sifted through the ashes for the true grit of which Casper Coloradas was made and created out of that salvaged grit and ash, the man he was destined to become.

U + UR Hand
Check it out, goin’ out, on the late night.
Lookin’ tight, feelin’ nice, it’s a cockfight.
I can tell I just know that it’s goin’ down, tonight.
At the door, we don’t wait, coz we know them,
At the bar, six shots, just beginnin’,
That’s when dickhead put his hands on me, but you see-

I’m not here for your entertainment,
You don’t really want to mess with me tonight.
Just stop and take a second-
I was fine before you walked into my life.
Coz you know it’s over, before it began.
Keep your drink, just give me the money,
it’s just u & ur hand tonight.

Midnight, I’m drunk, I don’t give a fuck.
Wanna dance by myself, guess you’re outta luck,
Don’t touch, back up, I’m not the one, uh buh-bye.
Listen up, it’s just not happenin’,
You can say what you want to your boyfriends,
Just let me have my fun tonight, a’ight.

I’m not here for your entertainment,
You don’t really want to mess with me tonight.
Just stop and take a second-
I was fine before you walked into my life.
Coz you know it’s over, before it began.
Keep your drink, just give me the money,
It’s just u & ur hand tonight.

In the corner with your boys, you bet ’em five bucks,
You’d get the girl who just walked in but she thinks you suck.
We didn’t get all dressed up just for you to see-
Quit spilling your drink on me, yeah.

(You know who you are, high five and talkin’ shit,
But you’re goin’ home alone, aren’t ya?)

Cause- I’m not here for your entertainment,
You don’t really want to mess with me tonight.
Just stop and take a second-
I was fine before you walked into my life.
Coz you know it’s over, before it began.
Keep your dream, just give me the money,
It’s just u & ur hand tonight.

I’m not here for your entertainment,
You don’t really want to mess with me tonight.
Just stop and take a second-
I was fine before you walked into my life.
Coz you know it’s over, before it began.
Keep your dream, just give me the money,
It’s just u & ur hand tonight
U + Ur hand is credited as a collaboration between Pink, songwriters Max Martin and Rami (Yacoub) and record producer Luke Gottwald. It was performed by Pink and released on her 2006 album, I’m not Dead.

It gets its title from tried and true the put down line, “I guess it’s just you and your hand tonight.”

 

This is my response to Jim Adam’s call for songs containing the body parts, Ankles/Hands/Feet/Fingers/Toes/Wrists on this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Although I owe it’s real inspiration to tnkerr.

34 thoughts on “U + Ur Hand”

  5. Alecia Beth Moore (Pink) is so creatively talented. I spelled my first daughters name Alecia, but not because of PInk.
    My Alecia was born when Pink was 8 years old. Violet, I love your story to go with this song! Great choice today!

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  11. Still one of the best Pink songs to date – though, she has so many of them! Great choice, Violet, and I really enjoyed the story prompt and what you added to it here in your post. Thanks for sharing them all! 🙂

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