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Story behind the song
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Lyrics
'Holding onto the Past'
Well you're one half a century man
And I'm one over the eight
We've put up bricks with these four hands
And we shut a dozen gates
We stilled horizons in our quest
To take down every star
To give 'em hell n' beat the rest
But I'm still at the bar
I'm holdin' onto the past
There's still some life in these bottles
You know I can't run fast
Yeah the future's forgotten
I'm holdin' onto the past
I'm lookin' over my shoulder
I see nothin' will last
Nah tomorrow is over
Yeah bridges burn n' fall apart
N' time is there to waste
There's somethin' kickin' in this heart
But I can't rely on fate
Some can while the years away
And others plan ahead
You n' me we seen our day
We made a barbed wire bed
I've hitched a horse for every race
To hold a middle age
N' every line upon this face
Is written from a page
Winter took my frozen luck
And summer lost my name
Nothin' but the time is up
The ending of the game
Well you can write your diary
Your journal or your book
Just leave me to my memories
And everything they took
© Maria Daines/Paul Killington