Story Behind The Song

I met a wise man . . . I found a message in a bottle . . . what they said was . . . hang on. Lovers hang on. And you can call me heads, you can call me tails, I'm a coin that's just been tossed. I guess I'll just, I guess I'll just, hang on. Pain you feel won't last too long.

Song Description

Lovers hang on. Loss of love hurts, but hang on, 'cause the pain you feel won't last too long. Lovers hang on.

Lyrics

Hang On by Leo Clarke, © 2000

I knew a wise man, he was genius,
he was special, he was dumb.
Never knowing where he came from,
or where he's goin', where he's from.
I met him in the back wood of
Washington State. He's picking apples,
growing dope, never stressed out
snorting coke. What he said was

Hang on, love will hurt for a while
when it's gone.
Hang on, pain you feel
won?t last too long.

I found a message in a bottle,
on an island, in the Keys.
I read the letter that it wrote,
it was not directed at me.
It was a story of two lovers
but their lovin' had turned bad.
I could not help it, I started crying
the story was that sad,
and what it said was

Lovers hang on, love will hurt
for a while when it's gone.
Lovers hang on, pain you feel
won?t last too long.

So you can call me a loner, call me a weirdo,
call me stranger, call me lost.
You can call me heads, you can call me tails,
I?m a coin that?s just been tossed.
Don?t matter what you say
or think of me, I?m just gonna
let it slide, five years of love?n
you been taking me for a ride.
I guess I?ll just, I guess I?ll just

Hang on, yea, love'll hurt for a
while when it?s gone. I?ll just
hang on, pain you feel won?t
last too long.

Yea, too long, won't last too long
Yea I said, won't last too long
Yea I said, won't last too long.