Hold Time lyrics

Death is just a door, Blake said it first
It's just another room we enter, it's a threshold that hurts
Birth is just a chorus, death is just a verse
In the great song of spring that the mockingbirds sing
We come and we go, a-weeping and a-wailing
Our heads in the hands of the nurse
Well, put your head on my shoulder, baby, tell me where it hurts

I was raised in a Catholic school, learned who to fire with and pray to
I learned how to hold on from a book of old psalms
And if you're trying to sing an old song and you're getting all the words wrong
Well, you're just a-following along too closely in the book

I learned how to keep my head from something Paul said
About keeping the fruit in the spirit from the chorus down to the hook

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When you're absolute beginners, it's a panoramic view
From her majesty Mount Zion, and the kingdom is for you
Uh huh
Uh huh

When you tumble upon that valley
Shark or sparrow line the stairs
When the arrows start descending, then they scatter everywhere
On a bookshelf in Caladonia sits a map of passageways
Best to stumble upon Mount Zion to behold the natural gates
Uh huh
Uh huh

You were beyond comprehension tonight
But I understood
I understood
If only I could hold time
Hold time
Hold time

Words have failed me tonight, failed me tonight
But you knew what I meant
You knew what I meant
Yeah, you heard what I said the whole time
The whole time
The whole time

And I wrote this song about it
Cause I didn't care about anyone in this photograph

Jailbird, jailbird, singing through the wires
Cause his cage is closed and he's stuck inside
Said who's gonna hear my "Help me, help me" now?
Yeah, who's gonna hear my "Help me, help me" now?
Help me, help me...help me help me now

Hangman, hangman, knocking on the door
Says heaven can't wait to have you no more
So who's gonna hear your "Help me, help me" now?

Well, since time I had a mind, I been lazy
And times before that I was cruel
And times before that I was lean, I was mad
Honey, I ain't never had nobody like you

And the times before that, well, I was crazy
I saw the dark side of the moon
And the stars in the sky, they never caught my eye
'Cause I ain't never had nobody like you
I ain't never had nobody like you

Everybody's going out, having fun
I'm a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how, oh, I got set free
Oh lonesome me

Must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about my past and find someone new
I thought of everything from A to Z
Oh lonesome me
Oh lonesome me

Oh and I bet she's not like me
She's out and fancy free

This river that we ride has always been alive
Oh, my soul, one hundred million years
This river that we ride will roll on when we die
Oh, my soul, one hundred million years
And this love, this love between you and I
Is older than that burning ball of fire up in the sky
And the gale that fills our sail

And the lights that shine tonight have always been alive

Well, the little things you say and do make me want to be with you
Rave on
Rave on this crazy feeling
I know
I know it's got me reeling when you say "I love you," I say "rave on"
I say "rave on," I say, "rave on"
My, my, my "rave on"
I say, "rave on"

And the way you look when you say goodnight
The way you make up when we fight
Rave on
Rave on this crazy feeling

Up on the sun, this time tomorrow
Fly, walk, or run, but this time no sorrow
First stop, Jackson, next stop, Shangri-La
And I cannot wait to see the expression on the face of my sweet lord
And back on the trail this time tomorrow, by foot, wheel, or sail, but this time no sorrow
First stop, Jackson, next stop, Shangri-La
And I cannot wait to see the expression on the face of my sweet lord

I was born on the first day of December
That means the beginning of the end
Between the last in the line of an emotional time
And the patriarchal rash in the wind

And I'm overwhelmed at the range of emotion
I can ride in some high, lonesome sound
I get so low I need a little pick-me-up
I get so high I need a bring-me-down
I get so high I need a bring-me-down

He push a breath of air and he fills every sail in sight
He push a breath of air and he fills every sail in sight
He spin a big, blue ball and he turns the day into night
And he shifts in his sleep and the earth begins to quake
Yeah, he shifts in his sleep and the earth begins to quake

So, how much difference could it possibly make?