| In the long line behind us of the fallen dominos
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| Are the faceless men and women
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| All the lives you will never know
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| In the darkest nights I live through
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| Hear them whisper in my dreams
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| «We are the oak of a thousand branches
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| And the roots have dug so deep»
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| Hold on through your desert
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| Oh hold on to the reins
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| Oh hold on to wonder
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| Our story in your veins
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| Once we were children
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| Above us burned the stars
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| And now we come to you in your darkest hour
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| As you are who we are
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| We would stare into our fires
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| As you have done tonight
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| Let the ashes know what’s right
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| Then you can decide
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| «Hold on you know what we know
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| Your dreams are our own
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| You’ll find out in time»
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| Oh hold on to memory
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| Hold on to the edge
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| Hold on to stories
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| The decision that you made
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| Oh find your direction
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| Oh hang on for your life
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| With yesterday just a blur or grey
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| Spinning in the wheels of time
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| The Great Wall of China
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| Is going to crumble in the end
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| And the graves that still surround it
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| Echo countless wasted men
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| In the brotherhood of factories
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| Where the bonds are forged in steel
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| By the hammer of redemption
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| In the fires of gasoline
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| So hold on to your brother
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| Hold on to your team
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| Oh fight your every hour 'cause
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| When it hurts you start to win
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| Oh hold on to something
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| You can do it if you try
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| There’s a wedge between the will and when
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| But the walls are closing in
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| We were thrown out of our lives
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| And across a great divide
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| But as long as you hold on
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| You keep us alive |