Composition
"Hands All Over" features lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil. Thayil on the song:
What I liked about the song was that it was just one simple riff—one note, one chord—but with a lot of dynamics. In some ways it's simple and basic; in other ways, it's very sophisticated in how it was layered. We don't really have many songs that are like "Hands All Over".
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