What Do I Do To Ignore What's Behind Me?
Do I Follow My Fate And Escape Blindly?
Do I Hide My Pride Away From These Bad Dreams
And Give Into Sad Thoughts That Are Maddening?
Do I Let It Go And Try To Stand It?
Or Do I Try To Catch Them Redhanded?
Do I Trust Some And Get Fooled By Phoniness?
Or Do I Trust Nobody And Live Life In Lonliness?

The Sunlight Burns The Skin Of Sleeping Men
I Make The Right Turns But I'm Lost Within
I Put On My Daily Faade But Then
I Just End Up Gettin' Hurt Again

[pre-chorus:]
By Myself (myself)
I Ask Why (but In My Mind I Find)
I Can't Rely On Myself (myself)
I Ask Why (but In My Mind I Find)
I Can't Rely On Myself

[chorus]:
I Can't Hold On
To What I Want When I'm Stretched So Thin
It's All Too Much To Take In
I Can't Hold On
To Anything Watchin' Everything Spin
With Thoughts Of Failure Sinking In

If I Turn My Back I'm Defenseless
And To Give In To Fate Seems Senseless
If I Hide My Pride And Let It All Go On
Then They'll Take From Me 'til Everything Is Gone
If I Let Them Go I'll Be Outdone
But If I Try To Catch Them I'll Be Outrun
If I'm Killed By The Questions Like A Cancer
Then I'll Be Buried In The Silence Of The Answer...

[pre-chorus And Chorus]

How Do You Think
That I've Lost So Much
I'm Always Afraid
That I'm Out Of Touch
How Do You Expect
That I Will Know What To Do
When All I Know
Is What You Tell Me To

Don't You (know)
I Can't Tell You How To Make It (go)
No Matter What I Do, How Hard I (try)
I Can't Seem To Convince Myself (why)
I'm Stuck On The Outside
[x2]

[chorus]

I Can't Hold On
To What I Want When I'm Stretched So Thin
It's All Too Much To Take In
I Can't Hold On
To Anything Watchin' Everything Spin
With Thoughts Of Failure From With...(in)


[thanks To Kaiticus@adelphia.net, Zrelmar@hotmail.com For Correcting These Lyrics]