The Grip

Intro

Tick tick ticking

(Mm)

Tick tick ticking

Verse 1

The clock above my dresser hates my face

It grins and chews the minutes off the wall

I beg it for an hour back

It gives me nothing

Not a single thing

Pre-Chorus

I claw at the hands I claw at the gears

I've been bargaining with years and years

Chorus

Time has a grip that will not slip

Time has a grip on you

It drags the young into the pit

And buries what it knew

No more no more

Nothing left to see

No more no more

It ends with you and me

Verse 2

I woke today a stranger to my hands

The mirror wore a face I never made

My mother's voice is rust inside a drawer

The dust keeps piling where her laughter lay

Pre-Chorus

I scream at the hands I bleed on the gears

I have begged for years and years

Chorus

Time has a grip that will not slip

Time has a grip on you

It drags the young into the pit

And buries what it knew

No more no more

Nothing left to see

No more no more

It ends with you and me

Post-Chorus

Tick tick ticking

(Tick tick ticking)

Tick tick ticking

Down down down

Bridge

Work on and on until you bleed

Work on and on it offers nothing

You fall you fall you never rise

Failure was the deal the whole time

I want to scream I want to run

But the hallway loops the hallway loops

Chorus

Time has a grip that will not slip

Time has a grip on you

It drags the young into the pit

And buries what it knew

No more no more

Nothing left to see

No more no more

It ends with you and me

Outro

The end of me

The end of the day

The end of everything

Forevermore

(Forevermore)

Tick tick ticking