Lyrics

HOLD MY HEAD HIGHER

Nobody knows when the man comes back.
Nobody knows the day or time.
Nobody says if he died in an attack, 𝄆E E E B B(1/2 bar)
Or was he crucified? E C#m A 1.E 𝄇
2.E/E7
Ask your ma all about that hat:
Did it sit about six foot high? C#m7 A C#m7 E/E7
Is he out aching on a rack, G#7 A B7 E E
Or is he doing fine?

Hey ladies, why you gotta hold your tongues?
Whoʼs the prisoner in your minds?
Why you so worried (1.,4.) Iʼd come undone?
I just wanna hold my head higher. (2. that I might run, 3.youʼd wreck the fun)

I got nobody for to watch my back.
I ask no favours, and I book no time.
I learned to crawl and then to stand,
And I wish heʼd be mine.

Walk out the door with a pack on your back.
Say you gotta work way down in a mine.
Outta my life you can self-extract,
I canʼt get you outta my mind.
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D’you wear your hair long, d’you tie it back?
Is your day foot bare, your night heel high?
Are you a studious girl in the stacks?
D’you got facts to find?

D’you play the princess, d’you wanna dance?
D’you prefer peace and quiet?
If he walked in, would you shut that trap,
Or would you be satisfied?
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Nobody says when the man comes back.
Nobody says the day or time.
Drunk in a trunk or not half bad,
He donʼt have to hide.

For a needle in the lordʼs haystack,
For a star in his cold black sky,
I saw a light, now I can’t turn back,
Lookin’ till the day I die.