Waits Tom

Hold On
	    By Tom Waits

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            They hung a sign up in out town
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            "if you live it up, you won't live it down"
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            So, she left Monte Rio, son
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            Just like a bullet leaves a gun
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            With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips
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            She went and took that California trip
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            Well, the moon was gold, her Hair like wind
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            She said don't look back just Come on Jim

            (Chorus)
            Oh you got to
            Hold on, Hold on
            You got to hold on
            Take my hand, I'm standing right here
            You gotta hold on

            Well, he gave her a dimestore watch
            And a ring made from a spoon
            Everyone is looking for someone to blame
            But you share my bed, you share my name
            Well, go ahead and call the cops
            You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops
            She said baby, I still love you
            Sometimes there's nothin left to do

            Oh you got to
            Hold on, hold on
            You got to hold on
            Take my hand, I'm standing right here, you got to
            Just hold on.


            Well, God bless your crooked little heart St. Louis got    the                       best             of           me
            I miss your broken-china voice
            How I wish you were still here with me

            Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
            You burn your mansion to the ground
            When there's nothing left to keep you here, when
            You're falling behind in this
            Big blue world

            Oh you go to
            Hold on, hold on
            You got to hold on
            Take my hand, I'm standing right here
            You got to hold on

            Down by the Riverside motel,
            It's 10 below and falling
            By a 99 cent store 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
            Well your old hometown is so far away
            But, inside your head there's a record
            That's playing, a song called

            Hold on, hold on
            You really got to hold on
            Take my hand, I'm standing right here
            And just hold on.