The Hold of It Lyrics

I couldn't take anymore

My mind and body at war

So I took what was left

And left the rest at the door

Before my will would kneel

To my Achilles heel

The need to slow it down

And the one not to feel

It made me laugh at your pain

This state of drunken disdain

My tongue became a whip

When I had grain on my brain

I lashed you with words

And I beat you with lies

And I knew there'd come a day

When you would come to despise

My penchant for pain

And my rhyme without reason

You watched as my weakness turned to thankless treason

It ate at my good just a little by a little bit

I wanted to lose

The hold of it

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

She couldn't take any more

Because she was tired and torn

Her patience was the flesh and I was the thorn

I twisted and turned and she was bitten and burned

But every time she tried to reach me you know that I turned

Into a gaping hole, an emotional abyss

I didn't care it was inebriated bliss

But the well went dry and I was paralyzed

Thick as a brick, deaf, dumb and blind

A coward's kill of my battered will

And when I finally bottomed out I found a river of guilt

It ate at my good just a little by a little bit

I wanted to lose

The hold of it

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits

The hold of it

Has got me in its grip

My father before me

His mother admits