Rope

Album: Wasting Light (2011)
Charted: 22 68
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  • This indecision got me climbing up the wall
    Been cheating gravity and waiting on the fall
    How did this come over me? I thought I was above it all
    Our hopes gone up in smoke, swallow your crown

    Choke, on a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
    Choke, on a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you

    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
    Give me some rope I'm coming, out of my head, into the clear when you, go,
    I, go, noose

    These premonitions got me crying up a storm
    Leave your condition, this position does no harm

    Choke, on a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
    Choke, on a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you

    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
    Give me some rope I'm coming, out of my head, into the clear when you, go,
    I, go, noose

    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
    Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
    Give me some hope I'm coming through, I'm coming out, yeah
    Give me some rope, I'm coming out of my head, into the clear when you go,
    I go, go

    Loose Writer/s: Christopher A. Shiflett, David Eric Grohl, Nate Mendel, Oliver Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Layton from Paris, TxThe middle of the song where they stop and go and Taylor has his badass tiny solo...ahh I love it xD
  • Drew from Bateville, InI have been humming this song all day... Great Song by a Great band
  • Mathijs from Houten, NetherlandsGreat rocking tune, liked it from the very start. The solo is awesome!
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