Black Thread

[Intro] Tie it tight Tie it low Tie it where the bad things go [Verse 1] Smoke in the walls Heat in the wires Room full of voices Room full of liars Kept my mouth shut Kept my hands clean Something black moved Under my skin Pulled me down Past the bent light glow One black thread In the dirt below [Pre-Chorus] Not luck Not grace Not healing Not safe Just one line Still my own One black thread To drag me home [Chorus] Black thread! Running through the damage Black thread! The only thing that held When the whole thing broke When the lights went dead I held that thread And it pulled me out of hell Black thread! Black thread! [Verse 2] Some bless with a knife Some smile while you bleed Some call it love Some call it what you need I learned the room I learned the code Wore the good face Till it split at the seams Somewhere below All the wrong I became One black thread Still knew my name [Pre-Chorus] Not luck Not grace Not healing Not safe Just one line Still my own One black thread To drag me home [Chorus] Black thread! Running through the damage Black thread! The only thing that held When the whole thing broke When the lights went dead I held that thread And it pulled me out of hell Black thread! Black thread! [Bridge] I don’t need clean I don’t need kind I don’t need the past To change its mind Let it come close Let it circle the door It knows my voice But it owns me no more [Breakdown] Under the floor Under the skin Under the name They buried me in One black thread Still holding on One black thread Still dragging me on [Final Chorus] Black thread! Running through the damage Black thread! The only thing that held When the whole thing broke When the lights went dead I held that thread And it pulled me out of hell Black thread! Underneath my skin Black thread! The only thing I kept I wasn’t clean I wasn’t whole But I was still mine When it pulled me home [Outro] There’s a line There’s a line There’s a line I can’t cut