"If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 8 March 2009 as the third single of their fifth album, A Hundred Million Suns (2008).

The song is a departure from Lightbody's frequent attempts at diagnosing his less positive personal issues, which often focus on his romantic breakups, and instead celebrates a newfound love outside human relationships.

He continued to say that the song was "set in the context of a world that's as terrifying as it is beautiful, which is why a lot of the imagery refers to space."

[5] The 7" single featured a new song, the previously unreleased b-side "In a Dream I Saw Satellites", written, composed and performed by frontman Gary Lightbody, without any collaboration with the rest of the band.

[6] The song later became the fourth Dutch single from the album, after "Take Back the City", "Crack the Shutters" and "The Planets Bend Between Us".

They chance upon an abandoned boat which is decorated with origami stars, which were featured on the album artwork for A Hundred Million Suns.

Upon album release, Rolling Stone said that the band was all about "big, echoing soundscapes", "gargantuan guitar crescendos" and emotions that could only be described in mythology and astronomy.

[12] PopMatters called the song "a moodier kickoff than "You’re All I Have", the instant power-pop anthem that served as the introduction to Eyes Open".

It praised the lyric where Gary Lightbody sings about having a strand of his lover's hair wrapped around his finger, calling it "borderline saccharine".

Lightbody's vocal delivery style was praised, saying that it "softens the blow of overwrought lyrics", citing 'the sea between us only amplifies the sound waves' as an example.

[15] Upon the release of the song, Daily Music Guide's Wayne Madden reviewed the single negatively, giving it 2 stars out of 5.

[16] BBC Radio 1's Vicki Lutas too gave the single a rating of 2 stars out of 5, saying that Snow Patrol had become lazy.