your fingernails go dragging down the wall

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:58 am

Songs that mention a part of the hand. Wrists yes, fists no.

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:41 am

"Please put your ring on a different finger, if you meet me tonight. . . ."

Talking Heads, "Born Under Punches": "Take a look at these hands/They're passing in between us/Take a look at these hands . . . ."

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:47 am

Hand in Hand
I Want You (fingernails)
Busy Bodies (her right hand)
Human Hands
Let's Hear it For the Boy (Let's Give the Boy a Hand)
Fingertips (They Might Be Giants)
Pinball Wizard (has such a supple wrist and crazy flipper fingers)
I'll Be Wrapped Around Your Finger

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:55 am

I Want To Hold Your Hand

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:38 am

Slow Hand (Pointer Sisters)

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:59 am

EC ~ White Knuckles
The White Stripes ~ The Air Near My Fingers

Bob Dylan ~ Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carrol (Twirled around his diamond ring finger)
The Beatles ~ Penny Lane (A four of fish and finger pies)
The Clash ~ Rock The Casbah (Got his guitar picking thumb)
EC ~ You Little Fool (She fingers a string of pearls)
EC ~ You Belong to Me (You say you don't come under his thumb)

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:21 pm

The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:42 pm

Clap Your Hands - They Might Be Giants
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car - U2 ("Nails bitten down to the quick")
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney ("Hands Across the Water")

That's all for now.

DrJ

double dutchess · Post by **double dutchess** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:22 pm

these are my long red nails
the better to scratch out your eyes

-"Lil Red", Bikini Kill

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:08 pm

Boomtown Rats--Under Their Thumb

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:30 pm

Short People-Randy Newman ("They got grubby little fingers")

tokyo vogue · Post by **tokyo vogue** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:59 pm

my obscure two cents:

the weakerthans, "anchorless" ('sunken cheeks and slender hands')
saetia, "postlapsaria" ('my fingers shake with the fear of control')
team dresch, "my dirty hands are mined"
sage francis,"specialist" (razor-sharp teeth gnawing at my wrist')
pansy division, "groovy underwear" ('let my hands go fishin' around in...')

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:55 am

Bit of a sitter here....

''it only took my little fingers to blow you away''

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:59 am

Not part of the song proper, but so indispensible it's still eligible, I think:

The Beatles, Helter Skelter - "I've got blisters on my fingers!"

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:23 pm

"More Like A Hand Job
Than The Hand Jive"

Strict Time

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:32 pm

Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You - "In order to deal in this game/got to make the queen disappear/it's done with a flick of the wrist"

Elvis Costello Fan Forum

your fingernails go dragging down the wall

your fingernails go dragging down the wall

Different Finger of course