Hold On, Hold On, Margaret

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Margaret Kyle is sixty-six

Her kettle whistles a thin low drone

She counts the spoons then counts them over

Forty years she has lived in this house alone

The window fogs and clears and fogs again

She says her own name just to hear a voice

Sixteen pills arranged in a little row

Each one a small obedient choice

Pre-Chorus

Some mornings she is only fog

Some mornings she is only bone

Chorus

Hold on hold on Margaret

The long ache will loosen its grip

Hold on hold on Margaret

You are more than the weight you carry

More than the weight you carry

Verse 2

Her daughter calls on Sunday afternoons

Margaret says she is fine she is fine she is fine

Hangs up and sits inside the quiet

Where the clocks keep their slow indifferent time

She was a teacher thirty years

Wrote her name on the board a thousand times

Now the chalk is gone the students gone

And the room is only rooms

Pre-Chorus

Some evenings she is only rain

Some evenings she is only stone

Chorus

Hold on hold on Margaret

The long ache will loosen its grip

Hold on hold on Margaret

You are more than the weight you carry

More than the weight you carry

Bridge

(Kyle)

(Kyle)

Margaret Kyle

(Kyle)

Say it softer

Say it kind

(Kyle)

You were somebody's daughter

Somebody's child

Chorus

Hold on hold on Margaret

The long ache will loosen its grip

Hold on hold on Margaret

You are more than the weight you carry

More than the weight you carry

Outro

Hold on

Hold on

Margaret Kyle