What do I do to ignore what´s behind me?
Do I follow my fate and escape blindly?
Do I hide my pride away from these bad dreams
And give into sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I let it go and try to stand it?
Or do I try to catch them redhanded?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness?
Or do I trust none and live life in lonliness?

The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping men
I make the right turns but I´m lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up gettin´ hurt again

[pre-chorus:]
By myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can´t rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can´t rely on myself

[chorus]:
I can´t hold on
To what I want when I´m stretched so thin
It´s all too much to take in
I can´t hold on
To anything watchin´ everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in

If I turn my back I´m defenseless
And to give in to fate seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they´ll take from me ´til everything is gone
If I let them go I´ll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I´ll be outrun
If I´m killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I´ll be buried in the silence of the answer...

[pre-chorus and chorus]

How do you think
That I´ve lost so much
I´m always afraid
That I´m out of touch
How do you expect
That I will know what to do
When all I know
Is what you tell me to

Don´t you (know)
I can´t tell you how to make it (go)
No matter what I do, how hard I (try)
I can´t seem to convince myself (why)
I´m stuck on the outside
[x2]

[chorus]

I can´t hold on
To what I want when I´m stretched so thin
It´s all too much to take in
I can´t hold on
To anything watchin´ everything spin
With thoughts of failure from with...(in)