Holding on, for my life.
Hanging on, By A Thread.
Cause I if I don't try, I'm gonna fall into the hatred of this world.
And If I don't try I'm gonna fall, I'm gonna fall...
My hands are bleeding, this thread cuts through my veins;
But it's all I've got to hold.
I hang and pray and struggle everyday,
To keep this spark of reality from growing cold.
And If I don't try I'm gonna fall, I'm gonna fall...
A tightrope balance; my very life,
hangs By A Thread above the abyss of my despair.
If I lose my grip again, oh if I snap.
I will be lost again - a dark relapse.Turn away from the pain you don't want
Turning down to avoid them when they call
Strange words I heard a long long time ago
I wish I could back to a summer time
I knew more than twenty years ago
can't lay between the sheets
we lie underneath the maple tree now
now I can't smile
lying in the grass with the wind around us
as we smile and talk
listen to your Grandma sing those country songs
She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire
every four years
we'd lay in the grass all summer long
just to watch the autumn come around. . .
I can't smile
I can't smile
now I live alone
and your so far away
Yeah I call you every year
just around the holidays
I still see you in the night
lying above me in the grass. . .
I can't smile
turn away from the pain you don't want
Turning down to avoid them when they call
I can't believe this letter that said you died
I think I'm gonna go back to the house in North Carolina
and lay in the backyard
get drunk and let the leaves
just bury me
bury me. . .
I can't smile