Hold On - Denison Witmer

Of all the weather here

I like rain the most

Of all the drives I’ve had

The Oregon coast

Of all the poetry

The Nights of Li-Young Lee

Of all the songs we sing

The songs of love

And I know how you’ve been worried sick for me

And I know how you’ve been taking after me

Oh when you’re not here

The less it seems to me

Hold on to you

Hold on to me

When you closed your eyes

You slowly turned to light

I slept through each day

I stared all night

To our history

The rings of family trees

I backed myself into

The in-between

How a father always starts out as a son

How sometimes you’re both

Sometimes you’re only one

How we manifest things far beyond our means

I do this for you

I did that for me

And I know how you’ve been worried sick for me

And I know how you’ve been taking after me

Oh when you’re not here

The less it seems to me

Hold on to you

Hold on to me