Nicole Atkins - Red Ropes lyrics

rate me

Yu 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

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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

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