I've been drivin' down this road   Five times this week   It's almost as if these farm fields   Could speak to me      A hungry lion's been prowlin'   Outside my door these days   And though I shake my fist at it   It doesn't go away      But hold on      There's a place beside your heart   Right below your collar bone   Where I have laid down my head   And rested like I've never known      I stayed there for a while or so   It broke my heart to see you go      Hold on, hold on, hold on   Hold on, hold on, hold, hold on      Life is short, my dreams are made   And the bargain's struck and the price is paid   I have walked a fragile line   And I have heard an inner voice call      I called you up, I woke you up   I ask you could I try anymore      So hold on, hold on      Well, there are those who would put you down   Smilin' bastards who would keep you down   But this gentle source who will lift you up   And I have heard the voice of God sayin'      Hold on, hold on, hold on   Hold on, hold on