Handle Me Lyrics
Who taught you that
If you get a good thing, you better not touch it too much?
Who taught you that
You've got to keep your hands clean or you're gonna mess it all up?
[Pre-Chorus]
I am not a brand new bicycle
I am rough around the edge
I am not a flower petal
[Chorus]
You can handle me
You can handle me
Put your hands on me
You can handle me
[Verse 2]
What got you thinking
If you love someone, it's best to just leave them alone?
Look how you got me
You've got me reeling, waiting for you to come over
[Pre-Chorus]
And put me to a higher purpose
Bend me back and send me flying
I'm not gonna break, I promise
You can handle me
You can handle me
Put your hands on me
You can handle me
[Outro]
Kiss me under my right ear
Running your fingers down the back of my spine, and
Handle me, grab a fistful of my hair
Trace me like an outline, and
Handle me, flip me onto my left side
So we can intertwine, and handle me
Hold me like you're the tie that binds
Spread this out across and handle me
About
“Handle Me” is a love song to a lover who’s anxious and not wanting to touch or be too much. The songwriter asks their lover not to shy away, but to handle them.
Q&A
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Katie wrote this song in January 2020. When we first did this song, Naomi and I were thinking a lot about, funny enough, 311—there’s a guitar part based on those early-2000s songs, something that would be on The O.C. Naomi felt really inspired about changing the drums and then I played the guitar part slightly differently and we tried to make it more of a lo-fi sexy track. I really fought for the song to be on the record, because I was like, ‘Oh, we don’t really have a song in our discography that is sexy in this specific way.‘ It shows a different side of MUNA.
- 1.Silk Chiffon
- 2.What I Want
- 4.Home By Now
- 5.Kind of Girl
- 6.Handle Me
- 7.No Idea
- 8.Solid
- 10.Loose Garment
- 11.Shooting Star
