The Perceptionists - Grab Hold lyrics

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