[Verse 1 - Narrow] Who told you it was a spider, love? Who hung that name on the door? You read the silk, you trust the shape, but never asked what for. The light falls gold on pretty strands, the same strands darken there. It looks like home, it feels like hands, but it might still be a snare. [Chorus - Heavy Half-Time] So keep one foot on solid ground, keep one eye that won't go in. The web can hold most everything, but not the eye you never lend. Read it early, read it slow, read it close beside the door. The cost of knowing only climbs the deeper you go. [Verse 2 - Tighter] Say the small true thing out loud and watch the room go tight. A web that cannot bear a joke has marked the truth on sight. Push the door before you need it, dear, while pushing still seems fair. A snare has one way out of here, and shows the price too late to care. [Chorus - Heavy Half-Time] So keep one foot on solid ground, keep one eye that won't go in. The web can hold most everything, but not the eye you never lend. Read it early, read it slow, read it close beside the door. The cost of knowing only climbs the deeper you go. [Bridge - Heaviest] And the warm ones are the hard ones, when the comfort says lie down, when it melts away the worry instead of walking it around. And maybe it ain't lying. Maybe it believes it too: a lion in a spider's coat that don't know what it'll do. It can love you like a spider, it can maul you like a beast, and mean the both of them, my dear-- the kindness and the teeth. [Final Chorus - Controlled] So keep one foot on solid ground, keep one eye that won't go in. Even when it's good to you, even when it calls you kin. Even when staying watchful feels like wounding your own friend, especially then, love, especially then-- Keep one foot on solid ground, keep one eye that won't go in. The web can hold most everything, but not the eye you never lend. Read it early, read it slow, read it close beside the door. The cost of knowing only climbs the deeper you go. [Outro - Machine Hum] You don't win the mystery spider's gambit. You keep an exit. You keep one eye outside. The knowing and the cage can use the same front door. Test the latch each morning: does it move like it did before? Push. Listen. Push again. Keep one eye unwoven for as long as you're inside. The web may hold the rest of you. It won't ever hold that eye.
