i got soul, but I'm not a soldier

When there's nowhere else to run: is there room for one more son?
But if you can hold on, [if you can manage to take it and hold on]: hold on.
[You say] you know, [that] you know [what’s in my heart],
[But] you don't, [no] you don't…

I want to stand up, I want to let go,
I want to shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

[Yet] another head aches, another heart breaks
[and] I am so much older than [what] I can take:
my affection, well it comes and goes
[and I seem to find it hard to know],
I need a direction to perfection,

Help me out
You know you got to help me out
Don't you put me on the blackburner
[Don’t push me away, even when I do,
‘cause you know you got to help me out]
These changes aren’t changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be…

Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
[there’s no nowhere else to run,
So,] if you can hold on: hold on.