This Rope's Getting Tighter Lyrics - Watch The Fireworks - Emma Pollock

I drive through streets, I could walk for weeks 

Full of life or full of loneliness 

Whose eyes will I watch from 

Today? 

The day I signed, My horror signed 

My glass was overflowing, celebrate 

This rope's getting tighter 

And someone is pulling me back to the start, Oh 

I need something that I know now, Oh 

Just too far away from home now, Oh 

Just a sight or sound to trust now, Oh 

Keep it simple, Keep me static 

Just enough to lose the panic 

Let me see the light again 

I have to know, Where it goes 

Needing from the inside out 

This gut rot I could do without 

So sinister, a pastime 

I have to know, I have to go 

So cut the cord, Throw overboard 

This history that claims of me 

My present, and my future 

Both clear to see, Both bound to be 

A replica, this life so far 

I think it's time I raised the bar 

But this rope's getting tighter 

And someone is pulling me back to the start, Oh 

I need something that I know now, Oh 

Just too far away from home now, Oh 

Just a sight or sound to trust now, Oh 

Keep it simple, Keep me static 

Just enough to lose the panic 

Let me see the light again 

I have to know, I have to go 

Needing from the inside out 

This gut rot I could do without 

So sinister, a pastime 

I have to know, I have to go