WAYS OF HOLDING ON

Ray Cooper / John Jones / Alaric Neville / Lee Partis / Alan Prosser / Ian Telfer
Pukka Music 1999

First released on:  Here I Stand, 1999

    
dark days of winter, the tunnel never ends
whatever you do now you'll never make amends 
a hard wind is blowing, it's slippy on the street 
me and all my friends 
we're only trying to keep our feet

these are the days
these are the ways of holding on

the shadow of the Pharaohs freezes up the earth
they know what the price is,
they don't know what it's worth
summer isn't buried, it's only out of sight
me and all my friends we are imagining the light

I can see the island, give me a boat
a lifeline to summer, keep my soul afloat
somewhere it's thawing, a trickle has begun
me and all my friends
we are just waiting for the sun

these are the days
these are the ways of holding on