Beautiful South The Hold On To What ? Lyrics

Hold On To What ? Lyrics


												
														   (heaton/rotheray)

 She'd given everything she could give

 Twenty years of kindness made her sad

 Kindness never made enough to live

 So she sold the very last thing that she had

 

 As she held her hand out to him

 As he drove around the block

 He mouthed through the window 'just hold on'

 'i've held on many years now and i haven't found a lot'

 Hold on, hold on to what?

 

 So hold on to what? hold on to what?

 Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got

 I'll need a pair of stilts if i'm to ever reach the top

 So hold on! hold on to what?

 

 Many years of service with a smile

 Up shit creek and down the rhine

 Gibraltar rock and now the emerald isle

 He'd shined every shoe that he could shine

 

 And as he lay in his own blood

 Screaming 'i've been shot'

 He heard the major whisper 'just hold on'

 'i've held on all these years now, now what medal have i got?'

 Hold on, hold on to what?

 

 So hold on to what? hold on to what?

 Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got

 I'll need a pair of stilts if i'm to ever reach the top

 So hold on! hold on to what?

 

 

 So hold on to what? hold on to what?

 Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got

 I'll need a pair of stilts if i'm to ever reach the top

 So hold on! hold on to what?

 

 Sixty years and he's looking his worst

 Sitting in the park where she'd died

 Running hands through his final hair

 These are the words that he cried

 

 To achieve the american dream

 You need a trampoline

 To achieve the counter effect

 Get that whisky down your neck'

 And hold on, hold on to what?

 

 Chamberlain had his paper

 Jesus had his cross

 They held on

 We held on to what?