"Tight Rope" is the debut 1972 hit single by singer-songwriter Leon Russell.

Billboard Hot 100[2] and number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100.

[4] This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire.

In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the "Entrance of the Gladiators" March, played in a mysterious descending scale, before Russell finishes the last half of the bridge section.

The B-side of 45 RPM for "Tight Rope" was "This Masquerade", also penned by Russell, which became a Top 10 hit for George Benson in 1976.