The Ties That Bind Us
Phil Selway Glenn Kotche Pat Sansone Sebastian Steinberg
Lisa Germano Don McGlashan Jeff Tweedy
Phil Selway — Vocal, acoustic guitar
Glenn Kotche — Drums, percussion
Pat Sansone — Acoustic guitar, Celeste, harmony
Sebastian Steinberg — Stand-up bass and bowed bass
Lisa Germano — Violin and whisper
Don McGlashan — Euphonium, Flugelhorn
Jeff Tweedy — Additional arrangement
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Written by Phil Selway

Wait a minute, it's all gone south
Words don't matter I'm all talked out
I wanna show you another way
I wanna shield you from my mistakes

They're the ties that bind us
It's a kind of blindness
Who needs eyes to see
The family madness running through me

You my son I held in my arms
Close and keeping you safe from harm
I wanna show you another way
I wanna keep you from my mistakes

So take me back to a time before
I lost my nerve and the trail went cold
I wanna know there's another way
I wanna shield you from my mistakes