Hands held higher We'll be on fire Does it bother anyone else Down in the forest We'll sing a chorus Singing songs that nobody wrote That someone else has your name? One that everybody knows I scream, you scream, we all scream

Oh, my daddy said shoot And men like me come around He said take care of your mother Watch out for your sister With his gun, with his head held high He told me not to cry With his right hand on his rifle He swore it on the bible My daddy said shoot

Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Everything all the time He was a hard-headed man he was brutally handsome And she was terminally pretty She held him up and he held her for ransom In the heart of the cold, cold city He had a nasty

I gotta long long way to go Before I can say goodbye to you Before I can say goodbye To all I ever knew Then every time I turn around And you're nowhere to be found Oh, I gotta long long way I know You held my hand and then you slipped away

'Cause I never knew, I never knew You could hold moonlight in your hands 'Til the night I held you You are my moonlight The sun is setting And you're right here by my side And the movie's playing But we won't be watching tonight

You don't know how hard it can be Now my only company's a half full glass of wine Leave me no choice but to plot my revenge It's been so long Since I've held your hand Said you wouldn't be home late tonight I gave up waiting at seventeen past midnight

I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered Well I, own this field And I wrote this sky And I have no reason, to reason with you But I'd understand that I'd never let it go But I'd understand that the world does what it does And you never

Follow the god that failed I see faith in your eyes Broken is the promise, betrayal I hear faith in your cries The healing hand held back by the deepened nail Pride that you felt when you'd kneel It feeds it grows It clouds all that you will know Deceit

And now that you're gone I feel I'm to blame yeah I feel I'm to blame I just wish that you spoke up and held out your hand I waited for you but you never came, no you never came I was waiting for you man, right down there by the sea Where we used to

Take you to every party It all just sounds like ooh Ooh too young, too dumb to realize That I should have bought you flowers And held your hand Should have gave you all my hours When I had the chance 'Cause all you wanted to do was dance Now my baby's