When your imagination has too much to say   When the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day   And you have trouble understanding what other people have to say   You'd better      Hang on to your emotions, hang on to your emotions      When a demagogue inside your head has taken charge   And by default what you say or do is criticized   And this litany of failures is recited a thousand times   You'd better      Hang on to your emotions, hang on to your emotions      Could it be you've never felt like that   That your mind's a cage - inside the cage a cat   That spits and scratches all it can get at   And that's you, and your emotions      Could it be you've never felt like that   Your mind's a cage - inside the cage a rat   Rabidly trying to get it, you   And your emotions, you and your emotions      When your imagination has too much to say   When that facile voice inside your head says give your life away   You might think to ask - how it got that way   What books it has read - that make it that way   And where it got the right - to speak to anyone that way   You'd better      Hold on to your emotions, hold on to your emotions      When a night city's breeze blows across the room   And a 5 am moon and sun start their swoon   You hear your lover's breath   And not a moment too soon   You get to      Release all your emotions, you get to   Let go of your emotions, and now   Release all your emotions, you'd better   Let go of your emotions      Release, I wanna let go   I wanna release, now