Hold Your Hand
Eternal Desires: Embracing Loss and Holding On
Lyrics
Oh It's a game, hold tight
Expressing the challenging nature of life as a game, urging to hold on tightly.
Can you shut your eyes?
Asking if one can close their eyes, possibly implying avoiding reality.
Shut out the light
Suggesting shutting out the light, symbolizing escaping from the harshness of truth.
Death is so bright
Describing death as bright, possibly highlighting its inevitability and intensity.
From dreams you wake to shock
Transitioning from dreams to reality, where a shocking truth awaits.
To find it's true
Realizing the truth and finding it to be accurate.
But, she's not you
Acknowledging someone who is not the same as a significant other.
No, she's not you
-And you'd do anything to bring her back
Expressing a willingness to do anything to bring back a lost loved one.
Yes you'd do anything to bring her back
-Oh It's a game, hold tight
Repeating the theme of the game, the struggle to shut out reality, and the brightness of death.
Can you shut your eyes?
-Shut out the light
-Death is so bright
-From dreams you wake to shock
Reiterating the realization that someone is not the same as the one lost.
To find it's true
-But, she's not you
-No, she's not you
-And you'd do anything to bring her back
Repeating the willingness to do anything to bring back the lost loved one.
Yes you'd do anything to bring her back
-And you'd do anything to bring her back
-Yes you'd do anything to bring her back
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
Expressing a wish that the painful truth wasn't true but finding solace in holding hands until the end.
But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
-But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-Til the very end.
-And you'd do anything to bring her back
Reiterating the strong desire to bring back the lost loved one.
Yes you'd do anything to bring her back
-And you'd do anything to bring her back
-Yes you'd do anything to bring her back
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
Repeating the theme of wishing the painful truth away and finding solace in holding hands until the very end.
But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
-But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
-But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-Oh I wish it wasn't true
-But there's nothing I can do except hold your hand
-'Til the very end
-'Til the very end
Emphasizing the commitment to hold hands until the very end despite the challenging reality.
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