For over 25 years I've got it wrong

[Daphnedot]

Watching TOTP on BBC. Place your hands on by Reef. I have always thought it was Place your hands on my horn! It's bloody hope

Could it be whole?

It's definitely 'hope'. It always sounded like 'hole' when sung, but the lead singer clarified at the time and on many, many occasions since, that it's 'hope'.

I always thought it was whole

I always thought it was hole but in my innocence I thought he meant mouth hole (because that's a thing).

It can’t be hole, surely 🤣

Ahh, ‘96, what a year, 18 years old without a care in the world.

place your hands on my hole 😮 😳

what was that suppose to mean?

Never thought it was anything other than hope.

Here he is singing it slower, definitely hope. I thought he was saying own.

Me tooo

I thought - and sing - place your hands on my heart!

Deffo hope. Hole snigger

Amazon Music shows the lyrics and they say hope !

Hole makes more sense tho !!

My DH and DS just saw them in concert and said they were amazing, and it's definitely hope.

Maybe it’s place your hands on my hope, run your fingers through my soap. That rhymes.

How I wrote ‘Place Your Hands’ by Reef’s Gary Stringer

"“Around that time we were actually on tour and my grandfather passed away. So we pulled the tour bus in to Dursley in Gloucestershire, which is where they were from. We pulled in for the night and I went to see my family. I came away and started thinking about the lyrics for Place Your Hands. When I hear the song I feel very uplifted. I’m really proud of the song and the lyric makes me feel happy, but really it’s reaching out for love."

www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/how-i-wrote/place-your-hands-reef

I've always thought it was 'own' glad I found the story.💞

I was sure I'd pasted this into my last post, better late than never

“‘Place your hands on my hope, run your fingers through my soul, the way that I feel right now, oh lord it may go.’ That verse is basically the overview of the song really, it’s reaching out at a time of sadness and you come away feeling happy, so I was really pleased with how it ended up"

Official answer, it's HOPE

I thought it was home?
I didnt really care that it made no sense as I shrieked along. I was already a permanently baffled confused teenager and nothing made sense to me anyway so it was just another mystery....

I’ve been singing ‘hole’ all these years.

But ‘hope’ is more poetic.

It's your letters, it's your letters, it's your letters it's your leee-eeh-ters.

😂😂 loved TGI!

I thought it was hole too- it's certainly what I've been shouting the lyrics too all these years
Good song though! Makes me feel v nostalgic!

Ah I love this thread, it's given me a proper giggle this morning with DH giving me the 🤨 face.

I was out last night but I'm going to watch TOTP on catch up later and feel like a teen again... And with the hole/hope debate settled we won't need to argue it infront of the DC.

Definitely hope. Not hole.

It's definitely "hope". What isn't mentioned in the clip upthread is why it sounds like "hole". Gary tried to make "hope" more recognisable but due to his accent and voice it kept coming out as "hopahhh"(the "p" sound was too harsh). so he just sand it with a very quiet "p" at the end, thus sounding like "hole". Don't ask how I know this 😉

Sang not sand.