Hold On To My Love Lyrics

Hold On To My Love lyrics

Seventeen, Id left behind my

pleated plaids and navy knee socks,

stumbled onto campus in my platform shoes.

Feeling young and unafraid


I moved from a passing grade to

passing bottles in brown
wrappers,

passing out in strangers rooms.  



It was a crazy
time; 

the world was unraveling.

And I would cling to any line,

to anyone, to anything.

If I could just find my way

to feel
familiar tapestry,

to hold a thread of sanity

and someone said to
me:  



Hold on to my love, 

my love, my love

Hold on to
my love  



Now I can see it your eyes;

they look at mine
defiantly.

Seventeen-- no surprise

God, you look so much like
me!

The style Ive seen before,

the hair, the clothesits all been
worn.

Honey, its the uniform

of non-conformity  



And
history has her patterns

I remember seventeen-

Between the past and
the future,

youre caught somewhere in the seam.

 

And if your
dreams no longer fit you,

If the ones you once held dear

start to
fade and disappear

remember- hope is here.

 

Hold on to my
love



I dont profess to know the future,

Couldnt guess beyond
today.

This thread of hope is all I offer

if the fabrics torn
away.

Disillusioned, disconnected,

sometimes its hard to see 

There is method to this madness,

pattern to this tapestry 



When people talk of cutting things,

cutting corners, cutting lines,

ties and losses, apron strings,

connections to another time,

theres something here for you to hold,

as long as youre a child of
mine,

this thread is strong as it is fine,

I cried when I wrote
this line  



Hold on to my love