Hold on [Song]

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HOLD ON
By Fya Empress

Hope is alive, hope is alive
Ay, Sweet Trinbago, aha.

There's a strange occurrence all over this land
Something ------- ominous, a twisted, devious plan
To snatch away the children right from under their parents' hand
'Cause they know that the children are the future of this great nation
But the darkest hour is always before dawn
So I know that something great is on the verge of being born
And every demon in Hell is trying to prevent it from being
So the deaths of our children is just an attempt to kill the dream.
And I know that it's hard to bear but we could weather this storm
And though it's causing many tears, I begging you to hold on.

I say, hold on, Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Suddenly without warning, the mortality rate
Of our nation's children, they just seem to escalate
Murdered, raped and abandoned, that's just the way it seems
Yet we don't realise that's just a part of an elaborate scheme
To have us circling the wilderness and never reaching the promised land
To blind us from the milk and honey and only seeing dem fake giants
To break the stride of a nation whose riches are just round the bend
To spoil a nation's future, you have to spoil the nation's children
So is child pornography, sex slave rings attacking the fruit
But is clear they don't know the nourishment that's embedded inside the root.

I say, hold on, Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Trinbago hold on, hold on, hold on.

I don't want to sound too biblical and I don't want to preach
But you have to be enlightened before more children are reached
Though you think I should not lecture you, don't ignore this message I bring
Because what's hidden from the wise and prudent is revealed to babes and sucklings
Listen to the voice of the one who's crying out from your wilderness
Telling you, even in your despair that Trinbago is truly blessed
Though it seems we heading down a precipice that leads onto destruction
Don't give up on your twin-island state, the best is yet to come
Now we know that it isn't easy when innocent blood is shed
But hold on to this promise that there are brighter days ahead.

I beg you, hold on Trinbago, there's a brighter tomorrow
Lying just beyond your sorrow, if you could hold on, hold on
No device on this earth could stop you if to yourself you would be true
Just hold on to your values, Trinbago, hold on, hold on.
There's a brighter day waiting for you and me
Just hold on, T&T.

Hope is alive, hope is alive.

Trinbago, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance! ..............................................................................................................................


A Note from the Gull

Thank you, Fya Empress.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare