Hold On-Chris Smither

[ti:Hold On] [ar:Chris Smither] [al:Chris Smither Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop ...] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hold On - Chris Smither [00:56.14]Let it fly and lonely cry everybody's free [01:00.37]I will decide how I'll be tied but freedom be there for me [01:05.48]We'll build walls around our brain [01:07.73]Leave these prisons in our chains [01:10.19]And hold on [01:10.99] [01:14.44]And I thought I had control I tried [01:17.21]But now I would be satisfied [01:19.16]To hold on [01:21.50] [01:24.06]And I thought I had control I tried [01:26.72]But now I would be satisfied [01:28.69]To hold on [01:29.51] [02:01.77]Tell me what to do and I'll tell you what I'll say [02:05.20] [02:05.78]My freedom will be measured by the length to which I'll disobey [02:11.04]Tell me where to go [02:13.17]And I'll freely tell you no [02:15.16]And I will hold on [02:16.81] [02:19.69]But leave me on my own [02:22.10] [02:23.16]And I'll lock these shackles to my bones [02:24.80]And I'll hold on [02:26.39] [02:39.79]Freedom for the soul is what we want but when it fades [02:44.30]We'll treat it like a burden till the devil feels he's underpaid [02:48.29] [02:49.30]We'll drag that spirit door to door [02:51.61]Till finally it can't move no more [02:53.95]It just holds on [02:54.84] [02:58.47]Now the only thing that's truly free [03:00.33]Is this little voice that's telling me [03:03.55]To hold on [03:04.28] [03:35.83]Freedom for the soul is what we want but when it fades [03:40.74]We'll treat it like a burden till the devil feels he's underpaid [03:45.11] [03:46.08]We'll drag that spirit door to door [03:48.21]Till finally it can't move no more [03:50.87]It just holds on [03:52.40] [03:55.14]Now the only thing that's truly free [03:57.40]Is this little voice that's telling me [03:59.48] [04:00.09]To hold on