Slippage

Title: Slippage Artist: Black Thread Union [Intro] [Verse 1] There was a little give in the cabling A smear of grease underneath the tongue I told myself it was just the weather Told myself the welds were young One foot sure, one foot guessing One hand sterile, one hand wrong The load-bearing floor made a small confession And I lied to myself and called it a song [Pre-Chorus] The signal bent The margin thinned Something shifted underneath the skin [Chorus] Slippage I felt the tension go slack Nothing dropped yet But nothing is coming back Slippage Small fault, long slide The body registered the fault Before the mind complied [Verse 2] There was a lean in the handshake A little oxidation on the vow I heard my own name turn sideways Inside a stranger’s mouth Kept my teeth clamped hard on the pressure Kept my eyes locked straight on the white line But the blacktop had other orders And the steering column had other minds [Pre-Chorus] The signal bent The margin thinned Something shifted underneath the skin [Chorus] Slippage I felt the tension go slack Nothing dropped yet But nothing is coming back Slippage Small fault, long slide The body registered the fault Before the mind complied [Bridge] Not a break Not a fall Just the plumb line Leaning off the wall Not a wound Not a cry Just the gray light Crawling through the seam Not the crash Not the smoke Just the first Soft drag [Build] The soft drag The soft drag The soft drag Underneath the foundation [Riff Break] [Final Chorus] Slippage I felt the tension go slack Nothing dropped yet But nothing is coming back Slippage Little give, dead line The whole structure shifted Before I ever called it mine [Outro] It moved first It moved first It moved first