Emma Pollock - This Rope's Getting Tighter lyrics

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 gla** 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