Hard to Handle Lyrics - Great White

Song Facts:

• Artist: Great White


• Album: Featured in the "Ordinary Angels" soundtrack.


• Genre: Hard Rock / Glam Metal

Annotations and Meaning:

The lyrics of the Great White "Hard to Handle" really echo of a man's assertion through confident claims that he is hard to handle because he is truly handsome and gives the best loving. The song just talks of the main character being confident in his love and promise to the love interest that she will never forget him.
The beginning of the poem sets the stage, if you like, in the sense that the speaker introduces himself as not a man but a man who is on the scene. This phrase suggests not only physical presence but also a sense of importance and notoriety.

The words of the song go: "I can give you what you want / but you've got to go home with me," a proposition going through the interconnection of desire and conditional elements. The speaker is sure to satisfy the other party but suggests that he should also get satisfied in reciprocity.

The refrain, "Bojsoni tings will come by the dozen / But that ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'," sets up the literary device of a metaphor to compare the other affections people have to cheap, easily obtainable commodities. This comparison elevates the speaker's love, suggesting it is of a rarer, more valuable kind.

The way he blends compliments with a word of caution really takes the cake: "Pretty little thing, let me light your candle / 'Cause Mama, I'm sure hard to handle, yes, I am.

In the lighting up of a candle, there is the giving of passion or interest into the individual's effort, while still somehow pointing to the speaker's apparent difficulty in this difficult task of love. This line epitomizes the very crux of the song's message: an invitation to something very potentially unruly and intense romance.

Then, the line "Action speaks louder than words / And I'm a man with great experience" expresses that the deed shows more of affections rather than speaking promises. By saying that he is the great, experienced man, he points out a quality of romantic excellence, which has him do away from other rivals.

Theme of competition and comparison seems to be running through the narrative; the lover is always trying to assert his importance over others and that he will be the best contender for her love. It builds his love as something rare and hard, where it catches a narrative of attraction and confidence. All in all, Great White's "Hard to Handle" is a confident, if not a bit too much, proud offering of love described to be nothing like any other and very hard to please. This speaks to it as a rock anthem of sureness, seduction, and the plight of romantic pursuit that seem to echo desire, competition, and self-confidence.