She'd given everything she could give
   Twenty years of kindness made her sad
   Kindness never made enough to live
   So she sold the very last thing that she had
  
   As she held her hand out to him
   As he drove around the block
   He mouthed through the window 'just hold on'
   'I've held on many years now and I haven't found a lot'
   Hold on, hold on to what?
  
   So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
   Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
   I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
   So hold on! Hold on to what?
  
   Many years of service with a smile
   Up shit creek and down the Rhine
   Gibraltar Rock and now the Emerald Isle
   He'd shined every shoe that he could shine
  
   And as he lay in his own blood
   Screaming 'I've been shot'
   He heard the Major whisper 'just hold on'
   'I've held on all these years now, now what medal have I got?'
   Hold on, hold on to what?
  
   So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
   Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
   I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
   So hold on! Hold on to what?
  
  
   So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
   Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
   I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
   So hold on! Hold on to what?
  
   Sixty years and he's looking his worst
   Sitting in the park where she'd died
   Running hands through his final hair
   These are the words that he cried
  
   To achieve the American dream
   You need a trampoline
   To achieve the counter effect
   Get that whisky down your neck'
   And hold on, hold on to what?
  
   Chamberlain had his paper
   Jesus had his cross
   They held on
   We held on to what?