Bloodline Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SecondDegreeFresh 

Cover art for Bloodline lyrics by Orenda Fink

No no, it's about genetics. Orenda is lamenting the tragedies of her geneology by tracing her family roots and finding a slave plantation, presumably run by a woman who married for money. It is also a take on that culture; they (the dead) have taken with them the ringing of their church bells. It is also about genetic determinism; she doesn't want to wind up as her great grand whatever did.

The video is full of the different meanings of "taking hands"