Fortune’s Fools – The Hand That Holds | Dark Fantasy Symphonic Metal

The Hand That Holds From The Hand That Holds by Fortune’s Fools. What begins as shelter can become ownership. What promises to protect can tighten into a chain. “The Hand That Holds” is the title track and opening song from The Hand That Holds — an album about control disguised as care, order, loyalty, precision and judgement. 🎧 Listen to Fortune’s Fools on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rxDf... LYRICS It begins as shelter A shape against the rain A voice that sounds like reason A hand that knows your name It asks for almost nothing A step, a word, a key And every small surrender Learns how to look like peace It does not come with iron It does not bare its teeth It lays the velvet gently Around what cannot leave It draws a line for safety It lights a candle low And makes the dark beyond it The proof you should not go A softer word A smaller sky A safer room A sweeter lie No shouted law No iron ring Just one more promise Beware the hand that holds too long Beware the voice that sounds like home The door that keeps the darkness out Can keep you there alone Beware the light that blinds the room Beware the law that calls it right The hand that shields you from the storm Can learn to own your life The hand that holds Can become the chain It grows by soft permission By promises and thread By polishing the bars Around the waiting bed It makes a cage of comfort A crown of being spared It says the ones who leave it Were never truly cared It learns the shape of silence It learns the weight of fear It calls the distance danger And keeps the danger near It does not need a weapon When gratitude obeys It teaches you that leaving Is how the lost betray Just another promise Beware the hand that holds too long Beware the voice that sounds like home The door that keeps the darkness out Can keep you there alone Beware the light that blinds the room Beware the law that calls it right The hand that shields you from the storm Can close around your life Beware the love that names the cage Beware the chain that calls you safe The hand that holds Can become the chain It does not break the mirror It teaches you the face It does not steal your name at once It wears it down with grace It calls your fear protection It calls your silence peace It gives you walls so gently You thank it on your knees It does not need a prison When you forget the sky It does not need a chain When you believe the lie That every door was mercy That every lock was love That every hand above you Was holding you enough A broken promise Now the hand has held too long Now the voice has become home The door that kept the darkness out Has kept you there alone Now the light has filled the room Now the law has called it right The hand that shielded you from storm Has closed around your life Now the love has named the cage Now the chain has called you safe Now the hand above your head Has taught you not to raise No road No name No door No flame No cry No blame No way back out again The hand that holds Has become the chain The hand that saved Has learned to reign At first it was shelter At first it was rain At first it was only A hand without chain Then one more promise Then one more wall Then one more hand To hold it all The hand that holds Has become the chain — Fortune’s Fools Dark Fantasy Symphonic Metal The Hand That Holds Track 1 — The Hand That Holds #FortunesFools #TheHandThatHolds #DarkFantasyMetal #SymphonicMetal