A song that expresses how Joe doesn’t want to be related to his father. He wishes that he could change who he is and what he’s made up of. The song uses the “double helix” (the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA) as a metaphor to show how he doesn’t want to be...
[Verse 1]
If you bottle every first impression
And sent them out to sea
But forgot mine, it would still find a way to me
'Cause the viewpoint never changes
(When they're stuck inside a memory)
Another night, another wasted echo
[Pre-Chorus]
Can I
Can I rewrite my code?
Retain the good and purge the bad
[Chorus]
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
[Verse 2]
But you're still a part of me
Clever and calculated
Or at least I'd like to be
Swallowed up in hatred while the surgery replaces who you are
Another time, another face to let go
[Pre-Chorus]
Can I
(Can I)
Can I rewrite my code?
(Rewrite my code?)
Retain the good and purge the bad
You're fraying at the fabric
I'm pulling at the strands
(Purge the bad, purge the bad)
[Chorus]
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your
I don't want your
[Bridge]
I never learned
Of all the places that you hide
(I never learned)
Surrender, all your words will fall
(I never learned)
Of all the places that you hide
(I never learned)
Your only fear is what's inside
[Chorus]
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your double helix
Take, take, oh please, just take it back
I don't want your
I don't want your
Double Helix was produced by Steve Evetts & Seth Henderson.
Knuckle Puck released Double Helix on Tue Sep 12 2017.
Guitarist Kevin Maida said that this song reminds him of ‘old Taking Back Sunday’ in the Rock Sound Podcast number three.