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“Hands Away” is a short slow burner off of Interpol’s Turn On the Bright Lights. The song is about a homosexual who is into bondage. Banks had also stated that people don’t usually understand his humor. Paul Banks told Q Magazine: "That’s from the standpoint of a homosexual into bondage." "It’s so absurdist, it’s an almost dreamy snapshot of a scenario that involves homosexuality, you know, like bondage and some weird sexual partnership which at the time I felt was very radical as a lyrical context for a rock song.