Palm Of My Hand [Glen Burtnik]

Palm Of My Hand
Written by Glen Burtnick
Lead Vocals by Glen Burtnick

In the palm of my hand
There is a love line
Twisting and tearing apart
Just like this heart of mine

Where did our love go?
Was I dreaming?
You tried to let me know
But I was too blind to see

Like a love line
Broken in two
You were going your own separate way
While I ran from the truth

And now that I've come home
I can't find you anywhere
I thought you'd be there
In the palm of my hand

In the palm of my hand
There is a photgraph
It's the picture of you and me
Caught in a frozen laugh

If I could go back again
Do it one more time
I'd give you all I have
And you'd still be mine
Whoa-oh

Like a photograph
Where the picture fades
We were standing so close
Then somehow you drifted away

And now that I've come home
I can't find you anywhere
I though I had you there
In the palm of my hand
Oh-oh

Oh
I thought I knew you
Then I went away
But I never thought I'd lose you

And now that I've come home
I can't find you anywere
I guess I never had you there
In the palm of my hand
Oh-oh

In the palm of my hand
Oh-oh
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
In the palm of my hand

Interpretation

This is about the regrets of a man who left a love behind, and upon returning discovered that he had lost that lover forever. He states that he made the mistake of thinking he had her "in the palm of my hand." The song makes a play on words with the expression by using two analogies to describe the relationship.

The first analogy compares his own heart to the "love line" in the palm of his hand. The "love line" is a reference to the heart line in palmistry, which supposedly has a link to matters of the heart such has love. The heart line can be straight and solid, or it can twist and split ("twisting and tearing apart").

The second analogy compares the relationship to a photograph. Ironically, it is a photograph of the the two former lovers laughing. As time goes on, the picture fades, much as the strength of the relationship which had gone untended for too long.

The realization that he took her for granted comes too late.