This Rope's Getting Tighter - 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 heart resigned

My glass was overflowing, celebrate

This rope’s getting tighter

And someone is pulling me back to the start

Oh, oh, oh

I need something that I know now

Oh, oh, oh

Just too far away from home now

Oh, oh, oh

Just a sight or sound to trust now

Oh, oh, 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 pasttime

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 of 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, oh, oh

I need something that I know now

Oh, oh, oh

Just too far away from home now

Oh, oh, oh

Just a sight or sound to trust now

Oh, oh, 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 pasttime

I have to know, I have to go