Lyrics to
Hold On

This version of Hold On was released by Carole King in 1977.

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Heavy chains have been broken
The old ones have spoken
Old young friend of ours
It won’t be long until we can touch the stars

Like a quicksilver flash, your liquid light
Flows into our hearts and makes us feel allright

Hold on until we can get there
You know when we get there
All the dark forces will be gone

We need each other now more than ever
Our love is the sun – young lord of the light
It’s a shame that one such as you
Should have to walk this cold and lonely night

Hold on until we can get there
You know when we get there
All the dark forces will be gone

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Hold On. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Hold On by Carole King

When you decide to study the lyrics to Hold On, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Carole King. Some of the lyrics to Hold On have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carole King and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Hold On if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hold On" means the words set to the music of Hold On, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hold On and the lyrics to Hold On are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hold On, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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