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?