Handle With Care Lyrics
Been sent up and I've been shot down
You're the best thing that I've ever found
Handle me with care
Situations tolerable
Baby, you're adorable
Handle me with care
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care?
Put your body next to mine and dream on
I've been robbed and ridiculed
In day care centers and night schools
Handle me with care
Sent to meetings, hypnotized
Overexposed, commercialized
Handle me with care
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care?
Put your body next to mine and dream on
But I'll clean it up myself, I guess
Oh the sweet smell of success
Handle me with care
It's been noted, that this song is about how the artists each felt as they rose to stardom. We, the public, don't see the nasty side.
Yes! It is fucking amazing song!!
RIP Harrison!
How has no one commented on this song? It is fucking amazing, man. I don't see why a band with such great, talented artists didn't last longer.
Well for starters a couple of them died.
Well for starters a couple of them died.
Lawlorator, the band probably didn't last longer because Roy Orbison died just after they released their first album.
"Fobbed off" is British slang. It means that you've been lied to. Specifically it usually means that the lie was an excuse to get out of something. Eg "Bob was supposed to be in today but he fobbed off some excuse" ie. He made up some lie and got out of coming in. For this song I think the meaning is obvious, Its part of a list of bad things that have been done to him.
beautiful
Listen to Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins' cover of this song, it's amazing
its funny how it was just a bet between bob and tom..... The story goes that they bob and harrison were doing some sort of songs together and tom was with orbison and he had left his guitar with harrison. So he called harrison and he and orbison went to see them and tom was like bob your such a great lyric writer write a song for us 4. Then bob said about what and i forget who but someone said just the first thing they saw which was handle with care becuase there was a box in there. Still an amazing song
@chunkymonkey102 It wasn't a "bet". You have a few anecdotal bits sort of correct, but mostly not. All of this is well documented in interviews with Harrison himself. George needed a track to be the "B" side for a promo single release from his album "Cloud 9". He didn't have anything recorded, so he was just going to go into a studio and fool around with some song ideas he already had, and record something. He was talking about this with his friends, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne at dinner and they asked if...
@chunkymonkey102 It wasn't a "bet". You have a few anecdotal bits sort of correct, but mostly not. All of this is well documented in interviews with Harrison himself. George needed a track to be the "B" side for a promo single release from his album "Cloud 9". He didn't have anything recorded, so he was just going to go into a studio and fool around with some song ideas he already had, and record something. He was talking about this with his friends, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne at dinner and they asked if they could come along and help. He didn't have anywhere to record it and you can't get studio time on 24 hours notice, even if you are George Harrison. But he knew Bob Dylan had a small studio in his home. Calling him up, Dylan said, "sure", he could come over and work on his song. So like magic, the 4 of them were placed at Dylan's that day. The only other strike of lightening was that George was picking up a guitar from Tom Petty he had lent him, and Petty also asked if he could "come along". Dylan asked Harrison what he was going to call the song, and since they were standing in Dylan's garage, George saw a box marked "Handle With Care" and said, "How about that?"
its funny how it was just a bet between bob and tom..... The story goes that they bob and harrison were doing some sort of songs together and tom was with orbison and he had left his guitar with harrison. So he called harrison and he and orbison went to see them and tom was like bob your such a great lyric writer write a song for us 4. Then bob said about what and i forget who but someone said just the first thing they saw which was handle with care becuase there was a box in there. Still an amazing song
really lovely.