Hold Back - The Rolling Stones

Hear the voice of experience

A word from the wise

Grab opportunity, yes, while you’re alive

Because if you follow the crowd

Because if you act like a coward

You’ll end up yelling out loud

Hold back

You’ll regret it someday

Choke on that

Don’t let it pass you by

Hold back

You better seize the hour

If you look in your history book

If you delve in the past

Stalin and Roosevelt, yeah, they both took their chances

And George grasped the nettle

It’s do or dare

From the banks of the Delaware

Yeah, don’t hold back

Trust your gut reaction

Be bold, be bold, baby

Mmm, if you don’t take chances, you won’t make advances

Hold back, yeah

Don’t matter if you aren’t so good looking

If you aren’t sharp as a blade

Na, don’t be afraid

Don’t hold back

Life is passing you by

Choke on that

Keep on moving, keep on moving, yeah

Yes, you run with the crowd, yeah

You will end up in the madhouse shouting those cold walls down

You, don’t hold back

Hold back, you’re messing with your life

Hold back

Yeah, life goes by fast sometimes

Be bold, be bold, be bold, be bold baby

You’re wasting your time

I want your attention, so pin back your ears

I’ve been climbing this tree of promises for over forty years

Your vision get broken

And bust on the ground

So watch me, watch me rebound

Yeah, don’t hold back, you wrecking your life

Choke on that.

Yeah!

Don’t hold back

You’re messing with your life