The Only Pair Of Hands

Sorry “There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved”

This sweet little song is a bit of curveball from Sorry, a band that up to this point has been on the icy and unsentimental side. But that inclination is part of what makes this vulnerable and open-hearted song about wanting to love and be loved so poignant. Asha Lorenz sounds reluctant to be saying any of this, and in the first verse she’s grounding the sentiment in a situation where she’s annoyed with the person she’s addressing. Once the song gets going she focuses her attention on what matters – a genuine empathy for all the lonely people in the world, but especially for the ones who are truly open to love. She feels like she is, but you get the sense she knows she can be self-sabotaging and is trying to stop herself from being that way. The core feeling here isn’t love, it’s frustration – in getting in your own way, of how difficult it can be to find something so simple and good, and in knowing that so many of these people who want to be loved are not going to get what they want or what they need.

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