I wish that you could see me now
All your old mistakes etched in my face
For life, oh
And I’m so tired of these games that you play
No more taking aim or sleeping in all day
Well, I know you got reasons not to stay
But I know that leaving won’t make you behave
So hold on, hold on, hold on,
She cries all through the night
Hold on, hold on, hold on,
He fights alone
What’s the matter with you now?
All my big ideas, these crippling fears
And now, oh
And there’s no time for these games that you play
With me
Where de-railing trains and creaking chains
Come from
Well, I still got no reason not to run
And if you unlock the door then I’ll be gone
So hold on, hold on, hold on,
She cries all through the night
Hold on, hold on, hold on,
We fight all of the time
Hold on, hold on, hold on
All your old mistakes etched in my face
For life, oh
And I’m so tired of these games that you play
No more taking aim or sleeping in all day
But I know that leaving won’t make you behave
She cries all through the night
Hold on, hold on, hold on,
He fights alone
All my big ideas, these crippling fears
And now, oh
With me
Where de-railing trains and creaking chains
Come from
And if you unlock the door then I’ll be gone
She cries all through the night
Hold on, hold on, hold on,
We fight all of the time
Hold on, hold on, hold on
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I really love this song, I think it captures the frustration of being in a relationship (or having been in a relationship) with a partner whose actions and behaviour are destructive to it, and who never learns from the mistakes they've made. The person's trying desperately to salvage what they have left in the relationship and asking the partner to do the same (hence the 'hold on, hold on, hold on) because they don't want things to fall apart worse than they already have.
Just a lyric edit: In the second verse, the first 'chains' is meant to be 'trains' (could have sworn I'd written it right when I typed it up originally)!