 Lasting for a duration of 4 : 12 , " My Hands " is a song about " life after the end of a relationship . " It is composed in the key of D major using common time and is 80 beats per minute . " My Hands " garnered a negative response from music critics . Andy Gill for The Independent listed it as one of the top four tracks to download from Echo , along with " Happy " , " Lost Then Found " and " Brave " . A reviewer for CBBC 's Newsround labelled the song , along with another track from the album called " Broken " , as " pretty forgettable . " The reviewer continued to write that although Lewis 's performs the songs undeniably well , they do not stand out compared to " Happy " and " I Got You " . Michael Cragg for musicOMH wrote that the chorus of " My Hands " " erupts " and " bludgeons the listener into submission " and that its meaning becomes overshadowed . 
