D`arby Terence Trent Holding On To You Lyrics

Holding On To You Lyrics

I left the east side for a west coast beauty

 A girl who burned my thoughts like kisses

 She was down by street decree

 She swore she'd pull my best years out of me

 Fat painted lips on a live wire beauty

 A tangerine girl with tambourine eyes

 Her face was my favourite magazine

 Her body was my favourite book to read

 

 They say that all poets must have and unrequited love

 As all lovers must have thought provoking fears

 

 But holding on to you means letting go on pain

 Means letting go of tears

 Means letting go of rain

 Means letting go of what's not real

 Holding on to you

 

 I left the rough side for a seaside baby

 A chamomile smile that pouts on cue

 For every moment I breathe her sigh

 Her bosom contains my sweet alibi

 In an emotional mist she breathes in fog

 And breathes it out as garden flowers

 Why me of all the tough talking boys?

 I guess she heard my heartbeat through the noise

 

 They say that all poets must have an unrequited love

 As all lovers must have thought provoking fears

 

 But holding on to you means letting go of pain

 Means letting go of tears

 Means letting go of the rain

 Holding on to you

 Means letting sorrows heal

 Means letting go of what's not real

 Holding on to you

 

 They say that all poets must have an unrequited love

 As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears

 

 But holding on to you means letting sorrows heal

 Means letting go of what's not real

 Holding on to you

 

 I left the east coast for a west coast beauty

 A woman who burned my thoughts like kisses

 She was down by street decree

 She swore she'd pull my best years out of me

 

 Fat wet lips on a sea salt canvas

 Goodbye Picasso hello Dolly/Dali

 The soil is fertile where her footsteps trod

 She's my new religion she's all I got

 

 They say that all poets must have an unrequited love

 As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears

 

 But holding on to you means letting go of pain

 Means letting go of tears

 Means letting go of rain

 Means letting sorrows heal

 It means letting go