Rope Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
This indecision got me climbin' up the wall
Been cheatin' gravity and waitin' on the fall
How did this come over me? I thought I was above it all
Our hope's gone up in smoke, swallow your crown

[Pre-Chorus]
Choke! On our kiss
Thought I'd save my breath for you
Choke! On our kiss
Thought I'd save my breath for you

[Chorus]
Gimme some rope, I'm comin' loose
I'm hangin' on you
Gimme some rope, I'm comin' loose
I'm pullin' for you now
Gimme some rope, I'm comin'
Outta my head, into the clear
When you go, I come loose


[Verse 2]
These premonitions got me cryin' up a storm
Leave your condition, this position does no harm

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Genius Annotation

Wasting Light’s lead single, “Rope,” talks about a relationship that the narrator needs to stay alive.

When you go, I come loose

Suggesting that without this person he’ll fall.

As the album was recorded without digital equipment, producer Butch Vig had to engineer the delay in the intro in an old fashioned way:

I got out my old drum machine and had a shake tambourine thing that I would speed up or slow down. I had to do that along with the band on the fly. A lot of those things we did with an analog delay so you’d have to manually move them around to match the tempo.

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