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 horror signed
My glass was overflowing, celebrate
This rope's getting tighter
And someone is pulling me back to the start,
OhI need something that
I know now,
OhJust too far away from home now,
OhJust a sight or sound to trust now,
OhKeep 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,
OhI need something that
I know now,
OhJust too far away from home now,
OhJust a sight or sound to trust now,
OhKeep 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