a favourite from metamorphosis, given the bare bones of the song treatment - hammond, guitar and violin.
trace the past, face the future, still holding on
all the beauty in your soul, one moment then it's gone
all the hurting, I can't hold on, not strong enough
all uncertainty but this, I need your love
and the truth, there's no shame to admit that all this time
you've been holding on in vain
and the sun, and the rain and all that nothing you could do could ever hope to change
and the love and the pain and every little thing that only
faith and wonder could explain
fate, what if, nevertheless, if only, might have been.
earth, the sky, motion and rest, it's lonely in between.
stay, but how sure could I be, no second guess.
go, surrender to infinity, and nothing less.