# Interpol's "Slow Hands" - please explain to me this song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608 "2004-11-25T06:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/1 "2004-11-25T06:42:56Z")
The first time I heard Interpol’s “Slow Hands,” I fell in love with the music. Even some of the lyrics are fab. “We spies, yeah, we slow hands…” (initially, I thought this was, “We spies, we slow dance,” meaning, “We spies engage in slow dancing,” but I found out the true wording when I heard the name of the song). When I looked up [the lyrics for this nice song](http://www.ewradio.co.uk/songdetails2.php?sid=1197), they made my mind hurt. Is this supposed to make sense? If yes, what does it say? what does it mean? I cannot decipher anything from its wording. Is it some secret code? Please help! WRS - I’ll continue listening to the song, nodding blissfully, yet in complete ignorance of what they’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/2 "2004-11-25T10:20:45Z")
Totally a WAG, but to me, that “we” stuff reminds me of that “He Do The Police In Different Voices” device. Of course the Loud Family already did that one over a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Halfling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@Halfling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Halfling)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/3 "2004-11-25T17:16:29Z")
I have no idea what it means but I agree it’s a great song. Does it matter if it doesn’t “mean” anything? It has an 80’s Goth feel to it that I really love. I didn’t know what the words were until I checked out the link you provided WRS but I like the song neither more nor less since I did so. It’s the groove that does it for me… ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/4 "2004-11-25T23:01:37Z")
I also have no idea what it means, but the song is still awesome. So’s the album and the album before it. ---
**Author:** ![swjl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@swjl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swjl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/5 "2020-11-26T06:08:17Z")
‘We spies, We slow hands’ has to do with past love that both persons are not over yet. we watch each other in new situations that were ‘slow’ to react too. and we burden ourselves with our inability to act or move past it and so ‘you put the weights all around yourself’ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpols-slow-hands-please-explain-to-me-this-song/276608/6 "2020-11-26T20:06:58Z")
Ok then… Welcome to our community.