knots - Intellectual

[Chorus]

I walk around with knots on my neck and my chest

And my neck and my chest

I walk around with knots on my neck and my chest

And my neck and my chest

I'm a, I'm a open book in a closed casket

Baby, I walk around with knots

[Refrain]

Knots

[Verse 1]

Knots, don't ask the question if you don't want the answer, oh my gosh

Ask what the news is, I became a nuisance when we tied that knot

And walked down the aisle, holding back a smile, how many years?

Like lassoing ocean waves when I try to hold back my tears

You told a story and you got to my name and it made you flinch

I became your stutter, I became a knot, I became a glitch

Unlucky tangles, I'm tripping up, tripping over words, tripping over shoes

Tripping over me, tripping over you, tripping over tripping, running outta room

Running outta knots

[Refrain]

Knots (Don't think about it too much)

Knots (That lump)

Knots (That lump in your throat)

[Chorus]

I walk around with knots on my neck and my chest

And my neck and my chest

I walk around with knots on my neck and my chest

And my neck and my chest

I'm a open book in a closed casket (Get it?)

I'm a open book in a closed casket (In a closed cask— oh!)

I'm a, I'm a open book in a closed casket (Ah!)

I'm a, I'm a open book in a… (Yeah)

I walk around with knots

[Refrain]

Knots

[Verse 2]

Knots

In my neck and in my chest

Pulling strings 'til they intersect

Uh, uh, still in the carpool by yourself

I had to fasten up my belt, I cut chords if you couldn't tell

Ooh, ooh, I don't fade to black, I cut to static (Static)

I don't fade to black, I cut to static (Static)

Tightrope, try to make it back, it's acrobatic

I hope you could get some luck from scratching at it (At it, huh, at it)

Something's kind of rubbing off (Uh, uh, yeah)

Took it up another notch (Uh, uh, uh)

Had to turn the oven off (Uh, uh)

Puppeteered and strung along (Uh-huh)

Stories end in "Never mind," stories end in record time

I know it's a cruel, cruel world, it happens every time

Get through yours, I'll get through mine

It's just another dot, dot, dot, just another dotted line

I walk around with knots

[Verse 3]

In my chest, no matter how hard my lungs try

Knots on my neck, try to speak, but I'm tongue-tied

That knot's the strongest yet, I don't think it's coming untied

Cold in the room, cold ever since the sun died

Ever since the two sides turned into the one side

Two-faced people only look at you through one eye

Too late— seen you, brought a rope into a gunfight

Shoelaced evil, watch your step before you dust bite

Treat me like a dust mite, thought we had enough, right?

Knots like a fisherman, hooked me in with one bite

Knots like a businessman, tied the tie a touch tight

Not doing this again, thinking 'bout that one night

Knots

[Outro]

You took out that film too soon

There was light (Knots) bleeding in the red room

I'll do anything but stand in front of the projector

I'd watch it all again