this rope's getting tighter

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