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White Knuckles Lyrics
You never get that taste,
Out of your mouth,
You never get the paw prints,
Out of the hen house now,
And you can't go back,
Same way you came,
Round all the pieces up,
But they just don't fit the same,
White knuckles,
Maybe it's not so bad,
So let your hair down now.
White knuckles,
Yeah maybe it's not so bad,
Aw go ahead and let it down.
So come and let it all out,
Let it bleed.
Did you get what you want?
Did you get what you need?
Behind the lines,
Behind the wall,
Tell me what's the bet you made,
Was it that bad after all?
White knuckles,
Maybe it's not so bad,
So let your hair down now.
White knuckles,
Yeah maybe it's not so bad,
So let it all come down now.
So just how far,
Is far enough?
Everybody needs to sleep at night,
Everybody needs a crutch.
But couldn't good,
Be good enough?
Cause nothin' never doesn't change,
But nothing changes much.
Yeah, maybe it's not so bad,
So let your hair down now,
White knuckles
Oh maybe it's not so bad
Then let it all come down now
Yeah maybe it's not so bad
Just let your hair come down now,
Oh maybe it's not so bad,
Just let it all come down.
Out of your mouth,
You never get the paw prints,
Out of the hen house now,
And you can't go back,
Same way you came,
Round all the pieces up,
But they just don't fit the same,
Maybe it's not so bad,
So let your hair down now.
White knuckles,
Yeah maybe it's not so bad,
Aw go ahead and let it down.
Let it bleed.
Did you get what you want?
Did you get what you need?
Behind the lines,
Behind the wall,
Tell me what's the bet you made,
Was it that bad after all?
Maybe it's not so bad,
So let your hair down now.
White knuckles,
Yeah maybe it's not so bad,
So let it all come down now.
Is far enough?
Everybody needs to sleep at night,
Everybody needs a crutch.
But couldn't good,
Be good enough?
Cause nothin' never doesn't change,
But nothing changes much.
So let your hair down now,
White knuckles
Then let it all come down now
Yeah maybe it's not so bad
Just let your hair come down now,
Oh maybe it's not so bad,
Just let it all come down.
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When I saw them at bonnaroo, they mentioned about their anger/ new hopes now that they broke away from their record company and their journey towards making this new album. The whole album itself signifies everything about that statement, about how poorly treated and badly controlled they were by their old record company.
'White Knuckles' is just signified as clenched fists and the color of your knuckles from it. Clenched fists of course because of anger and frustration. You can see this frustration in many songs about how things can change and it's never the end of the world.
The beginning lyrics are actually very intelligent, that no matter what you try to do, once something is done, it's been done and you can't change it. It will always be in people's memories, or a stain of it seen in random places no matter how much you try to back track and redo an action.
The rest of the song still has the same feelings. One of my favorite lyrics out of any song is 'Nothing ever doesn't change, but nothing changes much'. It flows smoothly off the tongue, and it has a lot of meaning to it. Original statement of finally leaving their record company, things changed for them, but they are still doing music and have done an amazing job at it, just with more freedom.
This song is well applied in daily life since all of us have these frustrations, but the message here is that it isn't as bad as you think. Just loosen up and 'let it all come down'. It's going to be okay. 'Everybody needs to sleep at night, everybody needs a crutch'. We are all very similar and usually experience the same bad things as everyone else does. So no one experience is usually too unique. Other's have gotten through it, so you can too.
"White Knuckles" is not the feeling of anger and frustration, it's fear apprehension or panic. To white knuckle something is to get through it by strained endurance. Generally the songs direct meaning seems to be about people who stay in a relationship even though it's not good for them because they are afraid of change and can't go back to how it was before.
"White Knuckles" is not the feeling of anger and frustration, it's fear apprehension or panic. To white knuckle something is to get through it by strained endurance. Generally the songs direct meaning seems to be about people who stay in a relationship even though it's not good for them because they are afraid of change and can't go back to how it was before.
@FnXGhost I think @phaselock is right .. Let your har down could also be a reference to the fairytail Rapunzel :)
@FnXGhost I think @phaselock is right .. Let your har down could also be a reference to the fairytail Rapunzel :)
Youll never get the paw prints out of the hen house now could very well be another way to say: "The (emotional) damage has been done.
Youll never get the paw prints out of the hen house now could very well be another way to say: "The (emotional) damage has been done.
"Cause nothing doesn't ever change"
is supposed to be:
"Cause nothing ever doesn't change"
I know it's a small word flip, but it makes a big difference. ;-) (And paired with the next line, they are my favorite of the song)
Shouldn't this be called "White Knuckles" and not "This Too Shall Pass"?
I think instead of "Everybody needs to sleep at night, everybody needs a crush" it should be "everybody needs a CRUTCH" but I could be wrong. I believe OK Go played this song live when I saw them about a year ago, if I remember correctly. They played about 5 never-before-heard songs at that show and I think I'm realizing some of them are on the new album. They're such a great live band. Great song, fantastic album.
The line should be "Tell me, was the bed you made really that bad after all?"
This song is my favorite on the new album. So funky. I LOVE it.
GET DOWWWWWWWWWWWWWNN.
"white knuckle it" is a phrase of having difficulty in going through the motions.
i guess the song is about someone having to deal with the difficult after-effects of something bad that they've done.