Lyrics

If (Hold On) © 2000 Belkora & Chávez (Lyrics adapted from Kipling)? If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, / But make allowance for their doubting too; / If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, / Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, / Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, / And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; / If you can dream ? and not make dreams your master; / If you can think ? and not make thoughts your aim; / If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two imposters just the same; / Chorus: / If I could still see you (Hold on!) / If I could still hear you (Hold hold on) / If I could still touch you (Hold on) / If I could still reach you (Hold hold on) / If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, / And lose, and start again at your beginnings / and never breathe a word about your loss; / If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew / To serve your turn long after they are gone, / and so hold on when there is nothing in you / Except the Will which says to them: ?Hold on"; / If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run ? / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And ? which is more ? you'll be a Man, my son! /