Name: Holding On
Duration: P00H03M10S
Description: This song has been in different forms for about 10 years. The "America, Iraq, Iran" line never changed though. That's kind of scary when you think about it.

Holding On

from Ink-Stained Fingers by Derek Brink

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This song has been in different forms for about 10 years. The "America, Iraq, Iran" line never changed though. That's kind of scary when you think about it.

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I'm tired of the leaving.
I'm tired of saying goodbye.
I'm tired of always laughing
for fear of always crying.
Thirty years gone
and it's almost not worth trying.
If this is going anywhere,
I could use some kind of sign.
What makes it worth it
When it's like this all the time?

The world is getting smaller
and it's everywhere you look.
America, Iraq, Iran,
irate from reading holy books.
Promised more, but getting less.
Promises go 'round and 'round.
It's a wonder my generation
didn't burn the whole thing down.
Life ain't turning out
the way I expected it to.
That may be a cliche,
but that don't mean it's not true.

But some things are worth the holding on.

I'm tired of the anger
and I'm tired of the guilt.
I'm tired of repenting
and of knowing that I never really will.
I'm tired of missing all the friends
I had once who are gone.
Seems my friends keep running out.
Or they're dying while they're young.

I'm tired of going to hospitals.
I'm tired of going to graves.
Everybody's getting cancer.
Everybody else is getting AIDS.
Ain't no use in crying,
sometimes things just go that way.
But you've got to start to wonder
if it's really worth the stay.

SOME THINGS ARE WORTH THE HOLDING ON.

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from Ink-Stained Fingers, released May 20, 2014

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