I Will Hold You Close, Somehow (City Sessions - Side B)

And we woke up to the silence

A chance to dream up how to live

So we may not feel forsaken

We try to learn to forgive

I will touch you the best I can

And travel swift to you in thought

We have the past and the future

And the time we forgot

To recall the things we found

In the colors of our days

In the sound of the music

That seemed to catch us unawares

And you who are, so far away

What are you thinking now?

Know that I, who am here today (here today)

I will hold you close somehow

I don't know this world anymore

I don't know what tomorrow brings

But I will try to look more closely

What I thought were smaller things

Each life has the same weight

Every priest and every thief

Shares the same certain fate

As every falling leaf

And you who are, so far away (far away)

What are you thinking now? (Now, thinking now)

Know that I, who am here today (here today)

I will hold you close somehow (oh)

I wish there was a way to tell

If tomorrow we will meet

But I feel older than I've ever been

On this uncertain street

I've been looking for new meaning

In the old lyric lines

But there seems to be no redemption

And I can't seem to read the signs

I'm lost without you, so far away (far way)

What are you thinking now? (Thinking now)

Know that to find myself (myself)

I must hold you close somehow

Yes, to find myself

I must hold you close somehow