Hand In Glove Bass Tab

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Hand In Glove
Tabbed By Gallien
Part A
G |------------/7-------5----------|--------------------------------|
D |-3---3--(3)--------------7------|-1---1--------------------------|
A |----------------------------(3)-|-------------1-----------1---3--|
E |--------------------------------|---------------------3----------|

Part B\
G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |-----5-------0---3---0---3------|-------------------------/8^10--|
A |-----------------------------3--|-----3---3---3-/-6---6----------|
E |-3------------------------------|--------------------------------|

G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |-----5-------0---3---0---3------|--------------------------------|
A |-----------------------------3--|-----3---3-------1-------1------|
E |-3------------------------------|-------------3------------------|


 


Order:
[00:07] Part A
[00:19] Part B 6x
Repeat over and over again

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/s/smiths,_the/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture sam Wanna Be	#1 by sam smith at Jun 26, 2006 at 6:39 PM EST
	I personally gree with the above interprettion, but 'd like to add that the reason wh the whole romance doesn'twork out is becaus one of the guys involved cares too much about what other folks will think of them.

No Picture KT Average	#2 by KT Brown at Jul 20, 2006 at 1:35 PM EST
	Its someone trying to convince someone else that the relationship they have is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to desert. it isn't necessarily homosexual I would say it is a great love song regardless of sexuality.it just refers to outsiders whose relationship is frowned upon (which occurs for many reasons). however in the end they lack the faith in the other to trust it will last

No Picture That One Guy Musical Genius	#3 by That One Guy at Jul 22, 2006 at 6:34 PM EST
	I don't think it's about sexuality either. I thought it was a pretty straightforward song about the absurdity of love - you think you're the first two people to fall in love, but it occurs all the time. Love is a bit pretentious, that's what I think he's saying. But then we are talking about Morrissey, so I'm probably totally wrong

No Picture meh Rhythm Player	#4 by meh at Sep 7, 2006 at 5:32 AM EST
	i hadnt noticed but it seems likely now. maybe its about one pompous homosexual who is trying to convince a closet homosexual to stay with him but it doesnt work out and he knows he'll never see him again... not sure

No Picture Tadej Average	#5 by Tadej Supukovic at Sep 24, 2006 at 10:26 PM EST
	for Hand In Glove: All I can see from the lyrics is that it is about a great love, and that the narrator feels that together the two of them can defy society and their own lack of means - "Yes, we may be hidden by rags, but we have something they'll never have!" (and Morrissey has commented on that aspect of the song - ). Who those two people are, is completely open to interpretation. As if the reason why people "stare" at them. Of course, it may be a homosexual couple. Or an interracial couple. Or a couple with a big age difference. Or the "good people" may be staring at them simply because they are "hidden by rags" (which is the first thing I would think on hearing the song) - a poor, possibly homeless couple (maybe even a bohemian, punk rock couple?) "No, it's not like any other love/This one is different because it's us" - isn't that what any two people in love feel like?! But some people think that this refers to a homosexual love? Which, I guess, is like no other love?! What about the love of any other two homosexuals? It's not like there's just one gay couple in the world, is it? LOL BTW, do you also consider No Ordinary Love by Sade and Strangelove by Depeche Mode to be 'gay anthems'? LOL So we're left with the line 'sun shines out of our behinds'... well, of course you can see that as reference to homosexuality... especially since it's a well known fact that women have no behinds... no, wait, they do? ;) Well, you can always see sexual meanings if you want to. There's a possible double entendre in every lyric, if you want to look for it. And I don't mean just Morrissey's lyrics, you know. Some other opinions: Johnny Rogan says the song spoke to "star-crossed lovers, budding teenage romatics and to-be-declared homosexuals alike". Andy Rourke thinks it was about the feeling of togetherness within the band. Mark Simpson in his 'Saint Morrissey' book has the idea that there is a similarity between Hand In Glove and a relationship from Morrissey's favourite book, Taste of Honey. he quotes a dialogue between the main character, Jo, and her best friend Geoff, where they express defiance at the society. (I know I've also read somewhere tha the last line "I'll probably never see you again" is from Taste of Honey. and furthermore, Simpson has the idea that Moz identified with the main character, the girl Jo.. But as far as I have read, Jo is a teenager who has an opressive mother, is bored to death at school, and finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a black man (Jimmy); and then she finds rescue in a relationship with a gay fellow student, Geoff (who shows her the joy of life, "taste of honey"). failure/disappointment in romantic love, then rescue in a platonic love/friendship - yes, I guess I see the connection.Well, Simpson's idea is that Johnny and the band were for Morrissey what Geoff was for Jo, and he says that the band is his 'Hand In Glove'. (But he also makes a connection with Rebel Without A Cause, with Moz as the James Dean character, the outsider, and Johnny as the Nathalie Wood character who helps him blend in. That part of the book was quite funny, BTW.:)) Well, obviously that's one of the ways to see Hand In Glove. But you might just take the song as a universal statement - it can even be from fantasy / the book and also from some personal experiences, whether romantic love (real or imaginary) or friendship, togetherness, and the band, as you said. It might mean all those things. Do we have to pick just one meaning?

No Picture juan Wanna Be	#6 by juan montoya at Oct 10, 2006 at 1:27 AM EST
	this is an awesome song. morrissey rocks my socks.

No Picture IM A MAN WHO C Rhythm Player	#7 by IM A MAN WHO CHANGED INTO A BEAST at Oct 18, 2006 at 3:18 AM EST
	i've always thought it was... "no its not like any other glove this one's different because its yours"

No Picture GALLIEN Wanna Be	#8 by GALLIEN at Nov 25, 2006 at 4:31 PM EST
	hereticeye, you remind me of brian kinney from queer as folk. and yeah, i definitely agree with you.

No Picture zach Average	#9 by zach c at Nov 27, 2006 at 7:01 AM EST
	All You guys are Wrong this songs is about his tour of duty in Vietnam and all the hookers he picked up there... no wait that's another artist and another song. The meaning could be so many things I think, that is Morrisey's genius. His ability to put himself in many situatuions that describe the human expirience, 70% chance it is about Gay love, I mean there are a few clues that are hard to deny as full proof that it is other than that, most of them have been mentioned already. Now Morrisey will never make such a obvious song and I belive it is inteneded to be like that, it could very well be about interacial love or different social class love. And when it comes down to it, I'm pretty sure that that feeling of alienation because of who you choose is the theme of the song and the fact that many people can relate to that, well then may be we can be more sympathetic to lovers whom ever society deems inapropiate.

No Picture This is between Wanna Be	#10 by This is between me and this blade, and my heart Taylor at Dec 4, 2006 at 5:30 AM EST
	I don't even know if this is about two individuals. >.

No Picture Adam Average	#11 by Adam Kerrison at Dec 6, 2006 at 6:13 AM EST
	big gay anthem... morrisseys lyrics are pretty cryptic but this ones obvious in my opinion... consider... 'its NOT like any other love...' notice the precise capitalization... 'and if the people stare, then the people stare...' 'the Good People laugh...' a friend of mine told me that 'sun shines out from our behinds' is a slang term for someone who thinks the world of themselves, if that doesnt describe a fag i dont know what does... plus theres that vulgar undercurrent... allusion to sodomy... and finally the end... 'i know my luck too well, ill probably never see you again...' describes every trick ive ever had...

No Picture Lauren Rhythm Player	#12 by Lauren A at Jan 2, 2007 at 5:43 PM EST
	"The favourite lyric I have written appears in a song called 'Hand In Glove'. The lines which are most precious to me are: 'The good people laugh/Yes we may be hidden by rags/But we have something they'll never have'. Which is how I felt when I couldn't afford to buy clothes and used to dress in rags but I didn't really feel mentally impoverished. "The inspiration? Just the very idea of people putting enormous importance on what they had and how they dressed and this very materialistic sense of value which is completely redundant. It goes back to the old cliche of what one has inside is really what one is. And that was it really. "I remember vividly the night I wrote 'Hand In Glove'. It was just over a year ago. I just wanted to use the theme of complete loneliness. It was to be our first record and it was important to me that there'd be something searingly poetic in it, in a lyrical sense, and yet jubilant at the same time. Being searingly poetic and jubilant was, I always thought, quite difficult because they're two extreme emotions and I wanted to blend them together. "I was in my room, alone, with a cassette with a guitar tune on it and I was surrounded by lots of words, and I just sat there for two hours and threw the whole thing together." - Morrissey, Star Hits, 1985

No Picture Taylor Average	#13 by Taylor Enokson at Mar 5, 2007 at 9:57 PM EST
	"...and everything depends on how near you sleep to me." - "Take This Longing", by Leonard Cohen "I'll probably never see you again. I know it." -"A Taste Of Honey", by Shelagh Delaney

No Picture Kevin Wanna Be	#14 by Kevin Woolard at Apr 2, 2007 at 4:52 AM EST
	I love this song.

No Picture Simon Average	#15 by Simon Donovan at May 4, 2007 at 12:01 AM EST
	Chloe Le Fay is right. Its all gay obviously and it is about confusion and always worrying what over people think bout things you do when maybe you should just do it?

No Picture Joe Average	#16 by Joe G at Sep 11, 2007 at 2:58 PM EST
	lol you dudes are funny. i really do love the smiths and morrissey but saying morrissey is a pansy... awh :( i'd go with just saying gay.