Four b**hin' Babes - Hold On To My Love lyrics

Seventeen, I'd left behind my Pleated plaids and navy knee socks Stumbled onto campus in my platform shoes Feeling young and unafraid I moved from a pa**ing grade to Pa**ing bottles in brown wrappers Pa**ing out in strangers rooms It was a crazy time; The world was unraveling And I would cling to any line To anyone, to anything If I could just find my way To feel familiar tapestry To hold a thread of sanity And someone said to me: Hold on to my love My love, my love Hold on to my love Now I can see it your eyes; They look at mine defiantly Seventeen-- no surprise God, you look so much like me! The style Ive seen before The hair, the clothesits all been worn Honey, it's the uniform Of non-conformity And history has her patterns I remember seventeen- Between the past and the future Youre caught somewhere in the seam And if your dreams no longer fit you If the ones you once held dear Start to fade and disappear Remember- hope is here Hold on to my love I don't profess to know the future Couldn't guess beyond today This thread of hope is all I offer If the fabrics torn away Disillusioned, disconnected Sometimes it's hard to see There is method to this madness Pattern to this tapestry When people talk of cutting things Cutting corners, cutting lines Ties and losses, apron strings Connections to another time There's something here for you to hold As long as you're a child of mine This thread is strong as it is fine I cried when I wrote this line Hold on to my love