The Tether and the Tie

Coming up the stairs
 Lying in the smoke
 Waiting in the weeds
 Dropping on a dare
 Sometimes you just know
 The light through the leaves
 As you're coming on
 Can't you let it go
 Passing on the other side
 Shifting down in double-time
 Saving something up again
 Watching as you don't arrive
 Everywhere has been
 Dragging in the sparks
 The tether, and the tie
 Where anything is spent
 Last to rush the running field
 I'm giving up this time, for real
 Soaking at the smallest tear
 Leaving what they couldn't steal
 Waking where you start
 Wunning until you're dry
 Taking from your own
 Everything you are
 Come around the line
 Trading in the walls
 Trying to get'em back
 Something serves you right
 Haven't you seen it move
 Always gone and almost new
 Toasting as you're buying out
 Is something coming over you