Hang On to Your Emotions

[Verse 1]

When your imagination has too much to say

When the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day

And you have trouble understanding what other people have to say

You'd better hang on to your emotions

Hang on to your emotions

[Verse 2]

When a demagogue inside your head has taken charge

And by default what you say or do is criticized

And this litany of failures is recited a thousand times

You'd better bang on to your emotions

Hang on to your emotions

[Bridge]

Could it be you've never felt like that?

That your mind's a cage, inside the cage a cat

That spits and scratches all it can get at

That's you and your emotions

Could it be you've never felt like that?

Your mind's a cage, inside the cage a rat

Rabidly trying to get at

You and your emotions

You and your emotions

[Verse 3]

When your imagination has too much to say

When that facile voice inside your head says give your life away

You might think to ask how it got that way

What books it has read that make it that way

And where it got the right to speak to anyone that way

You'd better hold on to your emotions

Hold on to your emotions

[Verse 6]

When a night city's breeze blows across the room

And a 5 am moon and sun start their swoon

You can hear your lover's breath and not a moment too soon

You get to release all your emotions

You get to let go of your emotions

And uh release all your emotions

You'd better let go of your emotions

[Outro]

Release, I wanna let go

I wanna release now