I Wouldn't Let It Go

I was just a boy

A rough and restless child

All skin and bones and thistles

A tough weed growing wild

Someday I'd be an astronaut

Make my way up to Mars

But I was like a monkey

With my hand stuck in a jar

I was holding on to something

That I couldn't make my own

At times it seemed so hopeless

But I wouldn't let it go

No, I wouldn't let it go

No, I would not let it go

Once I took a penny

Placed it on the track

When the freight train flattened it

I couldn't change it back

I was never lost

In my little town

But I remember hoping

That someday I'd be found

I was holding on to something

That I couldn't make my own

At times it seemed so hopeless

But I wouldn't let it go

No, I wouldn't let it go

No, I would not let it go

I was holding on to something

That I couldn't make my own

At times it seemed so hopeless

But I wouldn't let it go

No, I wouldn't let it go

No, I would not let it go

Wake up, sleepyhead

It's time to go to school

You don't want to be late

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up