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The Hoosiers
The Trick to Life
Clinging on for Life

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Clinging on for Life

Release date: 15th April 2008

From The Trick to Life

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About This Track

"Clinging on for Life" is a track by The Hoosiers, from the album The Trick to Life, released 15th April 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Clinging on for Life

[Verse]

I need you to reach me

Teach me how to love

I need you to reach me

Teach me how to learn

[Pre-Chorus]

Because I must have got it wrong

If I had love, then it's gone

I've been living without it for, oh, so long

And that's the way it goes, I suppose

[Chorus]

Made enough mistakes between

The two of us to sink this thing

We're still clinging on for life

Made enough mistakes between

The two of us to sink this thing

We're still clinging on for life

[Verse]

I need you to reach me

Teach me how to love

I need you to reach me

Teach me how to learn

[Pre-Chorus]

Must have got it wrong

If I had love, then it's gone

I've been living without it for, oh, so long

That's the way it goes, I suppose

[Chorus]

Made enough mistakes between

The two of us to sink this thing

We're still clinging on for life

Made enough mistakes between

The two of us to sink this thing

We're still clinging on for life

[Outro]

I must have got it wrong

If I had love, then it's gone

I've been living without it for, oh, so long

And that's the way it goes

When your head can but suppose

And instead of answers, it's full of "I don't know's"

And that's the way it goes, I suppose

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Track details

From The Trick to Life

2008

Album

The Trick to Life

Release year

2008

—Run Rabbit Run
—The Trick to Life
—Swear It on Your Life
—Song for the Uncertain (Demo)
—Cops and Robbers
—Clinging on for Life
—Everything Goes Dark
—Holding on for July (Demo)
—The Feeling You Get When
—Rules
—Ruby Blue
—Save Me from Myself
—Money to Be Made
—A Sadness Runs Through Him
—Killer

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Credits

Writer: Alan Sharland, Irwin Sparkes, Martin Skarendahl
Producer: Toby Smith
Keyboards: Toby Smith
Vocals: Irwin Sparkes
Credited: Alan Sharland, Irwin Sparkes, Martin Skarendahl, Toby Smith