← Means To The End
/ Lyrics
Title: White Knuckle
Artist: Black Thread Union
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
I kept my hand where the panic breeds
Two fingers deep in the steering dark
Jaw wired shut, eyes locking the bend
Like pure force could negotiate the end
There is a crack that the body makes
When the frame swallows more than the frame can take
I learned it young, I learned it clean
Throw all your weight on the fracturing thing
[Pre-Chorus]
The valve shuts down
The throat locks out
No mercy left in the mechanism
[Chorus]
A white-knuckle, dead-grip, bad-faith drag
I held the line till the asphalt cracked
A white-knuckle bone on a frozen brake
Some things don’t bend
They just learn how to break
They just learn how to break
[Verse 2]
I kept my peace like a chambered round
Under my tongue, out of the sun
Called it control, called it restraint
Called it whatever kept blood off the paint
Every vow had a pressure gauge
Every promise, a locked-up cage
I built a home out of holding still
Then cursed the foundation for making me ill
[Pre-Chorus]
The valve shuts down
The throat locks out
No mercy left in the mechanism
[Chorus]
A white-knuckle, dead-grip, bad-faith drag
I held the line till the asphalt cracked
A white-knuckle bone on a frozen brake
Some things don’t bend
They just learn how to break
[Post-Chorus]
They just learn how to break
They just learn how to break
[Bridge]
I was not calm
I was contained
I was not strong
I was trained
I was not healed
I was arranged
Around the weight
Of what I couldn’t change
[Build]
What I couldn’t change
What I couldn’t change
What I couldn’t change
[Riff Break]
[Final Chorus]
A white-knuckle, dead-grip, bad-faith drag
I held the line till the asphalt cracked
A white-knuckle bone on a frozen brake
Some things don’t bend
They just learn how to break
A white-knuckle, dead-grip, bad-faith drag
I held the line till the asphalt cracked
A white-knuckle bone on a frozen brake
Some things don’t bend
They just learn how to break
[Outro]
Hands full of fate
Held on too hard
Now I am the weight
Hands full of fate
Held on too hard
Now I am the weight