Red Ropes Lyrics - Slow Phaser - Nicole Atkins

You said you'd show me the ropes 

As you tied me to the tracks 

Didn't help to struggle 

Lies are good as facts 

For years and years you saw up and down 

You were over it 

Your eyes have seen the kingdom 

Born again misfit 

Unraveling up time these truths 

Tracing all the writer's roots 

Red rope binds and fast embrace 

Some knots don't untie 

Pray for forgiveness 

Cry for 

Because these ties that bind 

Don't come undone 

So fast as you'd believe 

Beg for a new heart 

Breathes but does not bleed 

And the red ropes are a viper's nest 

You can never lead 

Having hired all the taints 

And fixed a hollow man 

You found a cure cure for a pain 

Swore you'd never hurt again 

Always be a prized fire 

Even love begins the ropes 

You'll always be a liar 

Punch drunk on busted hope 

Pray for forgiveness 

Cry for 

Because these ties that bind 

Don't come undone 

So fast as you'd believe 

Beg for a new heart 

Breathes but does not bleed 

And the red ropes are a viper's nest 

You can never lead