Uploaded September 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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AUDIO ONLY. Happy Rhodes - The Keep (1995) - 11 - "Hold Me" (acoustic)

Lyrics:

Hold Me (3:25)
Echoes Living Room Concert series, Spring 1995
Original version on Building The Colossus (1994)

Lifetimes, I wait to be strong
But it's cool with you around
Your hands are just big enough
To keep me off the ground

With all the confidence I have
It seems I could go forever
But forever has no rest-stops
And my endurance sometimes fails

Hold me, hold me, hold me, in your arms
Can you tell me how I'm gonna make it

Facades can be tricky things
No matter the mortar
Life has its own abrasives
To wear them down before long

See I am so big in my head
It's hard not to feel let down
What to do, what to do now that I know
Oh how really scared I am

Hold me, hold me, hold me, in your arms
Can you tell me how I'm gonna make it
Hold me, hold me, hold me in your arms
Can't you tell me that I'm gonna make it

Hold me, hold me, hold me in your arms
Can you tell me oh how I'm gonna make it


©1994 by Happy Rhodes, Published by Hovering Slab Music BMI
Music, lyrics - Happy Rhodes
See credits for additional info
ecto.org/lyrics/keep/keep_credits.html

* The second single from Building the Colossus (AGCD0029), performed once again in John Diliberto's

living room by the spacy trio. Probably not the dance mix!

* Happy Rhodes - vox, acoustic guitar
* Kevin Bartlett - electric guitar and David Torn-inspired sonics
* Carl Adami - bass, devices