Grab Hold - The Perceptionists

I had a lover and I let her go free

You know what happened next?

She came back to me

Lost my job — didn’t let it fuck up my head

A year later had five times as much bread

My heart was broken and I let that shit heal

And jumped out the box as the fucking man of steel

Lost my best friend — didn’t follow his path

Instead I’m carrying his legacy through my lyrical math

My brother got locked up

When he checked his commissary though, my name always popped up

It’s something every woman and man should know

Never lose your soul over something you can’t control

It’s found in the Serenity Prayer

I ain’t religious, but I found a certain energy there

If it’s something I can control, you better beware

But if not — I’m still plenty prepared, because you can’t be

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(There's no end when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(You can’t win when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

There’s no end…

My tour bus crashed yet everybody lived

And I’m here this year

With more music to give

My dad left the crib

Over shit he hid

He stopped loving my mom

Yet my mom got strong

I’ve lost some relationships but gained wisdom

And found keys when regret was my prison

I’ve listened to sounds of anguish

Become a language

And feed the famished

I’ve seen the homeless

Flip a dope rhyme off the dome just

To prove they hadn’t drowned in their (own) aloneness

I know this.

Earth cracked open & split

Just to birth new land we call continents

I’ve heard a volcanic eruption

Sound like production

The bass was thumping

The clouds was moving

And sprouting humans

I’ve seen illusions

Be time consuming

You can’t keep…

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(There's no end when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(You can’t win when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

There’s no end…

(There's storms on the horizon)

Storms that we can see

(Storms within you)

And storms within me

Upsetting the motion of the ocean & the seas

But never leaving me another broken entity

Centuries vent to me

Til time’s just mindless

We stood there using the years to reminds us

(Removing the blinders)

But soon as we blinked

Species went instinct

And the polar caps shrink

Ak, what you think?

I’m puzzled like the riddle of the sphinx

I disagree with all of the misery

Because talking to history is only one side of the coin

We really need the future to join

Combining and designing til were flying

High from our findings

Brighten those horizons

Rising above the clouds to new pinnacles

Setbacks could never limit you as long as you’re not…

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(There's no end when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

(You can’t win when you’re)

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

Trying to grab hold of what you can’t control

There’s no end…