Phrase - Hold On

So down, you've been up for days (I've been in there, man)
So hold on, hold on (Yeah, I know what it feels like)
You're so messing with your ways (And if you feel lost, I'm on my way)
So hold on, hold on (Just hold on)

This kid's sitting at the train station, trying to maintain shit
Rain in his face, crying, his brain's flipped
He swears to God every fucking night that he'll change shit
But his grades get worse and he fights with the same kids
His mother telling him he need to smarten his act up
But schools just a place where we go to get bashed up
Self-esteem smashed up, brutally battered
He's thrown in his hat at everything that truthfully mattered
Abused and in tatters, tryin to find his way to the front line
But his peers hold him back everyday that it's crunch time
He's seen in the lunch line, but never been noticed
It's like he knows what he wants, but he's never been focused
So I hocus pocus, pull out a magic trick;
I gotta bring this kid back from a tragic trip
Before its too late and the time bomb ticks
Before he ends up drunk with a blade to his wrists, yeah

So down you've been up for days (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)
You're so messing with your way (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)

You see Debbie had a honey, and thought it was figured out
But Debbie fell pregnant so her hubby was somethin now
He left with nothin now, but chaos to order;
Man, she facin life sentence: single mother with a daughter
He bought her a car, but it was taken cheap from a stoner
But the message written is followed, said to go it alone
She's home on her own, trying to raise a baby, its bullshit;
This girl is only sixteen and barely a school kid
She ran with the cool click
The popular school chicks
The hot and the pool shit
But bikinis don't matter if your fat in the tummy
"It's not sad, it's just funny!" - It ain't a joke to her when little bubby's cryin for mummy
So now she's down on her own, coz her friends don't call
She's a Cinderella princess without no ball
And with tellin a friend is all she need when she's down
And she grieve, I'll pick her up and put her back on her feet, yeah

So down you've been up for days (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)
You're so messing with your way (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)

The other week, I saw this kid trying spit raps
For one of them parties where the private school chicks at
He sportin Payless shoes with the shit cap;
From the outer suburbs, caught up in the riff-raff
He dropped out at sixteen, and swore that he'd make it
They laughed at his clothes, but he'd rap if he was naked
I asked why he did this, he said "We just do."
It's like marriage: boy, you just knew
We was right for each other
You could write to each other
Spend a night with each other
Or fend and fight for the other
So if he does it, then I'm a do it too
Hold on and be strong
I'll be back, comin for you, yeah

So down you've been up for days (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)
You're so messing with your way (But I'm coming)
So hold on, hold on (Hold on, coz I'm coming)

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home (But I'm coming)
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home (Hold on, coz I'm coming)
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home (But im coming)
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home (Hold on, coz I'm coming)