Holding Back - Dougie MacLean

It’s in the darkness of believing

It’s in the shadows where we have to stand

Beside the loving and the grieving

O I’ll never understand

It’s in the way it has to reach us

It’s in the restless of the shifting sand

And all the truth it has to teach us

O I’ll never understand

Holding back to listen to the ocean

Holding back to dance inside the storm

I may be foolish but I don’t care

As long as you are there

From edge to edge we take our pleasure

We follow blindly each insane command

Judged by some eternal measure

O I’ll never understand

O and peace is child to no-one

We’re held together by an endless strand

First to be woven then to be undone

O I’ll never understand

Holding back to listen to the ocean

Holding back to dance inside the storm

I may be foolish but I don’t care

As long as you are there

Soon all the promises are broken

And expectation passes underhand

And not a gentle word is spoken

O I’ll never understand

It’s in the darkness of believing

It’s in the shadows where we have to stand

Beside the loving and the grieving

O I’ll never understand

Holding back to listen to the ocean

Holding back to dance inside the storm

I may be foolish but I don’t care

As long as you are there