The Candlelights - Strong Rope Lyrics

All my life I've made my hope
From Herculean golden rope
Taught it never to despair
Braided patience in its hair

Over time hope grew thick scales
Regenerating limbs and tails
Like a cactus in a drought
Quenched its thirst on arid doubt

My hope
My hope is strong rope
Ties me up in knots and
Keeps me back from that slope
Cuz my hope is strong rope

Then we met, our souls got down
Our fingers wore two gleaming crowns
Loopholes filled the knot we tied
Your love, it spread too far and wide

But hope bound me to railroad tracks
Fed me arsenic sugar packs
Told me you'd be coming back
So I plotted counterattacks

My hope
My hope is strong rope
Ties me up in knots and
Keeps me back from that slope
Cuz my hope is strong rope

Your love notes would be my blade
Metallic vows never degrade
Blacksmith, melt them!
Hammer! Grind!
A moonbeam razor, polish-shined

While hope plucked white daisy teeth
He-love-me-nots left as a wreath
The steel snakebike leaked from my sheath
Too quick for shadows underneath

On my back I beg and plead
Under hope's feet like a weed
The bleeding cuts heal rapidly
"Nice try," hope said, "you can't kill me!"

My hope
My hope is strong rope
Ties me up in knots and
Keeps me back from that slope
Cuz my hope is strong rope