Serina Jung: Music & Lyrics
Something to hold on to
I've often wondered why people stay in situations or relationships way beyond the point of personal or even mutual good; when it's obvious to everyone else that things are just not right. I think I've figured out at least one of the possible many answers to that question: self-deluding hope that things will get better. A hope that's based on fear of change and unknown alternatives and given enough of a glimmer of tangible evidence that hope strives to keep itself alive. A kind word, a well-timed aplogy, a gesture that almost says, "I'm sorry". It's not the kind of hope that gets a survivor through life-threatening danger. It's the kind that lies to you because you want or need to be lied to. I spent many idle hours wondering about what makes people stay, and this song is the result of those musings.
It's a great day to be alive, don't you agree?
the sun is shining and the air is candy
what's it like over there where you are?
have you thought about me lately at all?
I don't know why I call you as often as I do
when everything I know about you tells me not to
but then you speak to me so gentle
you give me something to hold on to
no, nothing's new, in fact nothing has changed
I go to work, come home and repeat
repeat day after day
my weeks resemble barren desert dunes
I'm stranded without hope of rescue
I don't know why I call you as often as I do
when everything I know about you tells me not to
but then you speak to me so gentle
you give me something to hold on to
your tenderness is curel
can't you see
I wait with bated breath for you to love me?
I'm like a sparrow in a parking lot
it's free to fly away and yet it combs the asphalt
to glean what crumbs it finds scattered all about
it believes its' satisfied but we both know it's not
I don't know why I call you as often as I do
when everything I know about you tells me not to
but then you speak to me so gentle
you give me something to hold on to