
Date of issue: 03.12.1999
Record label: Global
Song language: English
Something To Cling To |
Sometimes life feels like an ocean, |
cruel and far too cold to mention. |
Though you raise a great commotion — still no-one pays you attention |
There’s no sail on the horizon, |
when the shark-fins gather near, |
you watch your chances of surviving scuppered — |
(sink, then disappear), |
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to. |
(Watch your chances disappear when the shark-fins gather near), |
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to. |
As your 'fair-weather-friends'stand waving, |
from the comfort of their yacht, |
(it's strange how when you needed saving |
they conveniently forgot). |
The countless times you’ve stopped them sinking, |
fought to keep their lives afloat, |
and hauled them upwards, (without thinking). |
to the safety of your boat. |
AIl I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to |
(Fight to keep your life afloat — far from the safety of your boat) |
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to So tired and numb — your limbs now weaken |
and you slowly start to wonder; |
Should I not admit I’m beaten, |
let these waters drag me under? |
Feel a peace and calm descending, |
ceasing fears, and cares, and crying. |
Knowing that your life is ending, |
reconcile yourself to dying. |
Then as if from out of nowhere. |
(and just when you least expected). |
floats a single piece of driftwood — by some unseen force directed |
It’s a gift life often brings you. |
when you thought all hope long gone. |
sometimes a single dream to cling to. |
gives you strength to carry on. |
It seems the wisest words that I know, |
(three which some dead scholar wrote) |
are simply these: — Dum spiro spero |
meaning; |
WHILE I BREATHE I HOPE. |
All I need. |
all you need, all we need, is something to cling to, |
(The wisest words man ever wrote are simply While I breathe I hope). |
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to. |
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