Hi Jason!
So glad you now have "Forerunner"! The lyrics to "Hold On" are a little hard to understand. But that's why I'm here, so here you are:
Hold On
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan)
They hung a sign in our town,
“If you live it up, you won’t live it down.”
So she left Monte Rio, son
Just like a bullet leaves a gun
With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips
She went and took that California trip
Well, the moon was gold, her hair like wind
She said “Don’t look back, just come on, Jim.”
Chorus:
Oh, you got to hold on, hold on,
Baby gotta hold on
Take my hand, standing right here
Gotta hold on
Well, he gave her a dime-store watch,
And a ring made from a spoon
Everybody’s looking for someone to blame
But you share my bed you share my name
Go ahead and call the cops
You don’t meet nice girls in coffee shops
She said “Baby I still love you.”
And sometimes there’s nothing left to do
Chorus
Oh, God bless your crooked little heart
St. Louis got the best of me
I miss your broken-china voice
Oh, I wish you were still here with me.
But you build it up, you wreck it down
And you burn your mansion to the ground
Well, there’s nothing left to keep you here
When you falling behind in the big blue world
Chorus
Down by the Riverside Motel
It’s ten below and falling
By a 99 cent store
Oh she closed her eyes and started swaying
But it’s so hard to dance that way
When it’s cold and there’s no music
Your old hometown is so far away
But inside your head there’s a record playing a song called...
Chorus 2x
