Hold On
Tom Waits

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


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  ...But There's Never A Rose   'Til the Money Runs Out   (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night   \'til The Money Runs Out   $29.00   16 Shells From A 30.06   16 Shells From A 306   16 Shells from a Thirty - Ought - Six   16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six   16 Shells from a Thrity-Ought Six   29 00   9th & Hennepin   9th & Hennepin   9th and Hennepin     Turntable   A Good Man Is Hard To Find   A Little Rain   A Sight For Sore Eyes   A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue   A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun   After You Die   Ain\'t 2 Proud 2 Beg   Ain\'t 2 Proud 2 Beg (Left Eye\'s 3 Minutes & Coun...   Alice   All I Want For Christmas   All Stripped Down   All The World Is Green   Altar Boy   And No One Knows I'm Gone   Annie\'s Back In Town   Another Man's Vine   Anywhere I Lay My Head   Automatic   Baby Baby Baby   Baby Baby Baby (Extended Remix)   Back In The Crowd   Back in the Good Old World   Back In The Good Old World Gypsy   Bad As Me   Bad By Myself   Bad Liver and a Broken Heart   Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)   Barber Shop   Barcarolle   Better off without a Wife   Big Black Mariah   Big In Japan   Big Joe & Phantom 309   Big Joe and Phantom 309   Black Market Baby   Black Wings   Blind Love   Blow Wind Blow   Blue Skies   Blue Valentine   Blue Valentines   Books of Moses   Broken Bicycles   Burma Shave   Buzz Fledderjohn   Candy Apple Red   Careless Love   Case of the Fake People   Cemetery Polka   Chained Together For Life   Chicago   Chocolate Jesus   Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis   Christmas Cards From A Hooker In Minneapolis   Christmas Sucks   Circus   Clap Hands   Cold Cold Ground   Cold Cold Ground (Live)   Cold Water   Come On Down   Come on up to the House   Coney Island Baby   Credits   Creep   Creep (DARP Remix)   Crossroads   Damaged   Danny Says   Das Da Way We Like \'Em   Date To Church   Day After Tomorrow   Dead and Lovely   Dear Lie   Depend On Myself   Depot, Depot   Diamonds & Gold   Diamonds & Gold   Diamonds And Gold   Diamonds On My Windshield   Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For)   Diamonds On My Windshield Looking For   Diggin\' On You   Dirt In The Ground   Dirty Dirty   Don't Go into That Barn   Don\'t Pull Out On Me Yet   Down The Reeperbahn   Down, Down, Down   Downtown   Downtown Train   Downtown Trains   Drunk on the Moon   Earth Died Screaming   Eggs & Sausage   Eggs & Sausage   Eggs and Sausage   Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michels...   Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michels...   Eggs and Sausage (Intro)   Eggs And Sausage – Invitation To The Blues   Emotional Weather Report   Everything Goes To Hell   Everything You Can Think   Everything You Can Think Of Is True   Eyeball Kid   Face To The Highway   Fall Of Troy   Falling Down   Falling Down   Fanmail   Fannin Street   Filipino Box Spring Hog   First Kiss   Fish & Bird   Fish & Bird   Flash Pan Hunter   Flash Pan Hunter Intro   Flowers Grave   Foreign Affair   Frank's Song   Frank's Theme   Frank's Wild Years   FRANK\'S SONG   Frank\'s Theme   Frank\'s Wild Years   Frank\'s Wild Years For Frankie Z   Fumblin' With The Blues   Fumblin\' With The Blues   Georgia Lee   Get Away (Bonus Track)   Get Behind The Mule   Get it Up   Get Los   Get Lost   Gin Soaked Boy   Girl Talk   Give it to Me While It\'s Hot   God's Away On Busines   God's Away On Business   God's Away On Bussiness   God\'s Away On Business   Goin' Down Slow   Goin' Out West   Goin\' Down Slow   Goin\' Out West   Good Love   Good Old World   Good Old World (Waltz)   Good Old World Waltz   Goodnight Irene   Goodnight Loving Trail   Gospel Train   Gospel Train Orchestra   Gospel Train\/Orchestra   Grapefruit Moon   Green Grass   Gun Street Girl   Had Me A Girl   Hands Up   Hang Down Your Head   Hang Me In The Bottle   Hang On St. Christopher   Hat 2 Da Back   Heartattack and Vine   Heartattack and Vine   Heigh Ho   Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs' Marching Song)   Hell Broke Luce   Hey Hey Hey Hey   His Story   Hoist That Rag   Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You   Hope I Don\'t Fall In Love With You   House Where Nobody Lives   How's It Gonna End   I Beg Your Pardon   I Can't Wait To Get Off Work   I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On M...   I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work   I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On ...   I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On ...   I Can’t Wait To Get Off To Work   I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On...   I Cant Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Mo...   I Don't Wanna Grow Up   I Don\'t Wanna Grow Up   I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You   I Hope That I Don\'t Fall In Love With You   I Miss You So Much   I Need That *   I Never Talk to Strangers   I Want You   I Wish I Was in New Orleans   I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)   I Wish I Was In New Orleans – Small Change   I'll Be Gone   I'll Shoot the Moon   I'll Take New York   I'm Still Here   I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute   I\'ll Be Gone   I\'ll Shoot The Moon   I\'ll Take New York   I\'m Good at Being Bad   I\'m Still Here   I\'M YOUR LATE NIGHT EVENING PROSTITUDE   I\'m Your Late Night Evening Prostitute   Ice Cream Man   If I Have To Go   If I Was Your Girlfriend   If They Knew   In Between Love   In the Colosseum   In the Neighborhood   In Your Arms Tonight   Innocent When You Dream   Innocent When You Dream Barroom   Invitation to the Blues   Invitation To The Blues – Eggs And Sausage   Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream   Jack & Neal – California, Here I Come   Jack and Neal   Jersey Girl   Jesus Gonna Be Here   Jitterbug Boy   Jitterburg Boys   Jockey Full Of Bourbon   Johnsburg, Illinois   Just the Right Bullets   Kentuchy Avenue   Kentucky Anvenue   Kentucky Avenue   Kick Your Game   King Kong   Kiss Me   Komme Nie Zu Spät   Kommienezuepadt   Kommienezuspadt   Last Leaf   Let\'s Do it Again   Little Boy Blue   Little Drop Of Poison   Little Trip To Heaven   Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)   Live Circus   Lonely   Long Way Home   Looking For, The Heart Of Saturday Night   Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again   Looks Like I\'m Up Shit Creek Again   Lost In The Harbor   Lost In The Harbour   Lovesick   Lowside Of The Road   Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down   Lucky Day   Lucky Day Overture   Lullaby   Make It Rain   Martha   Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come   Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come   Metropolitan Glide   Midnight Lullaby   Midnight Lullabye   Misery Is The River Of The World   Mockin' Bird   Mockin\' Bird   More Than Rain   Mr. Henry   Mr. Siegal   Murder in the Red Barn   Muriel   My Life   My Secret Enemy   New Coat of Paint   New Year's Eve   New Year\'s Eve   New York Theme   New York Theme (instrumental)   Nighthawk Postcards   Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)   Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street   No One Knows I'm Gone   No Scrubs (LP Version)   Nobody   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The Father   Sleigh Ride   Small Change   Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)   Small Change\/Hey Big Spender   So It Goes   So Long I'll See Ya   So Long I\'ll See Ya   So So Dumb   Soldier's Things   Soldier\'s Things   Somethin\' You Wanna Know   Somewhere   Somewhere (from West Side Story)   Spare Parts   Spare Parts I   Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)   Spare Parts I A Nocturnal Emission   Standin’ On The Corner   Starving In The Belly Of A Whale   Step Right Up   Story   Straight to the Top   Straight To the Top (Rhumba)   Straight To the Top (Vegas)   Strange Weather   Strange Weather (Live)   Such A Scream   Switch   Swordfishtrombone   Swordfishtrombones   T'ain't No Sin   T\'ain\'t No Sin   Table Top Joe   Tabletop Joe   Take It With Me   Take Me Home   Take One Last Look   Take Our Time   Talking At The Same Time   Tango 'Til They're Sore   Tango \'til They\'re Sore   Tango Til They’re Sore   Tango Till They're Sore   Tango Till They\'re Sore   Telephone Call 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