[Verse 1]
Well I went out walking
But ended up talking to you
While asking your name
I watched all your pain seeping through
I asked, "why were you crying?"
Said, "there's no need for lying to me"
She said that there's nothing wrong
I said that something must be
She said, but you're just a stranger
You don't need my anger or blues
I said, "we all need a hand
When were standing on glass with no shoes"
So she said "I'm tired of this loneliness
Hiding out deep in my bones
Oh, my mind is a mess and
My heart is a handful of stepped on stones"

[Chorus]
'Cause it's been too long
Every evening, every dawn
Loneliness comes upon me
And its grown so old, all this emptiness, all this cold
I'm not digging for sympathy or begging for gold
I just want someone to hold

[Post-Chorus]
Someone to hold, yeah
Someone to hold

[Verse 2]
But after a while
She managed to smile and she said
"Well look at me now
You would've thought all my happiness fled"
She said, "you're also human
You've been through loneliness too"
I said, "darling, the words that you speak
You know they are true
But the sun always rises
And the spring always comes when it's time
It takes light to see shadows
It takes pain to see love truly shine"
She said, "you can wade through the waters
And climb all the towers in town
But love isn't something you find
When youre looking around" (no)

[Chorus]
'Cause it's been too long
Every evening, every dawn
Loneliness comes upon me
And its grown so old, all this emptiness, all this cold
I'm not digging for sympathy or begging for gold
I just want someone to hold

[Post-Chorus]
Someone to hold, yeah
Someone to hold, yeah

[Bridge]
So I wait through this tiring, lonely fate
Hoping tomorrow it's changed when I wake

[Chorus]
'Cause it's been too long
Every evening, every dawn
Loneliness comes upon me
And its grown so old, all this emptiness, all this cold
I'm not digging for sympathy or begging for gold
I just want, we all just want
Someone to hold