G#
You raise your head, beat the sun
D# C#
But your boys they lie, so close to you
Em D#
Do you dare get up? And wake the two
G# D#
Oh Elias, I see you there, at work in the daytime do you think you could,
C#
answer all the questions of the world
Em D#
In just one word, I think you could.
G# D# Em D# C#
If you die will i get word that you're gone
G# D# Em D# C#
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
G# D# Em D# C#
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
G# D# Em D# C#
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
G# D#
Honest and Manuel well you know, they're at school now
C#
Getting the chance that, their father's never seen
Em D#
See whats beyond, section 17
G# D#
And in 10 years, when you look back at your boys
C# Em
well you know they've grown, way taller than the tallest sugar cane in the
D#
field
G# D# Em D# C#
If you die will i get word that you're gone
G# D# Em D# C#
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
G# D# Em D# C#
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
G# D# Em D# C#
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
G# D#
Hold my hand just one more time
Hold my hand just one more time
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet meee.
C# G# C# D#
And I see your wife, she stands, stooped over by the fire outside
C# G# C# D#
And I see your boys, and when they look up, you know i think they've got their
mother's eyes
C# G# C# D#
Cause she looks so proud, she looks so happy, she looks so proud, she looks so
happy,
G# D# Em D# C#
yeaahhh If you die will i get word that you're gone
G# D# Em D# C#
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
G# D# Em D# C#
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
G# D# Em D# C#
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more tiiiime (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand ,one more time (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
G# D# Em D# C#
Dayah ya ya, yah yah yah, yah yah yah (Aya, Aya, Ayaahaha)
G# D# Em D# C#
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me