"Hands" is a song by American singer Jewel, released as the first single from her second studio album, Spirit (1998).

Even without a physical US release, the song reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the video peaked atop VH1's Top 20 Countdown.

Before she wrote "Hands", she experienced kidney troubles that prevented her from working, and as a result, she was fired from several successive jobs, sending her into poverty.

She explained: I had the price tag in my hand and it was one of those moments in my life, like a lightning bolt struck me, it was $39.99 and I thought "when did I lose faith in myself?

[6][7] According to the digital sheet music published at Musicnotes, the song is written in cut time (22) in the key of F minor with a moderate tempo of 68 beats per minute.

Because of this leak, Atlantic decided to rush-release promotional discs and move the official radio release forward to October 7.

[17] In Germany, a different CD single was issued, containing only the acoustic version of "Enter from the East" as an extra track.

[7] Chuck Taylor of Billboard noted how Jewel's lyrics were "less girlish" and "creamier and more robust" than her debut efforts on "Hands" and called the track "one hell of a new single".

[19] Conversely, AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine referred to the song's lyrics as "startlingly naive".

[22] The music video for "Hands", directed by Nick Brandt, was filmed at the Promenade apartment complex in West Covina, California on October 11 and 12, 1998.

Jewel appeared on Late Show with David Letterman one week after the incident, on September 18, 2001, and performed this song instead of the previously scheduled "Standing Still."