HAND TO HOLD ON TO

John Cougar Mellencamp



You can laugh and joke and make fun of your friends

Spin in the middle when the troubles begin

Take it nice and easy and always pretend

That you're cool, so cool, so cool



Say I'm alone and I'm wild and I will not be pained

Talk like a jerk or an educated brain

Be an old girl driving the young boys insane

Be a joker, a preacher it does not matter



Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Don't need to be no strong hand

Don't need to be no rich hand

Everyone just needs a hand to hold on to



Having good luck with your financial situation

Play the ponies, be president of the United Nations

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud

Drive your four wheel drive right into the mud



Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Don't need to be no strong hand

Don't need to be no rich hand

Everyone just needs a hand to hold on to



And them those hours when you're alone

And there's nobody there except yourself

I know it, you wanna pick up the phone

And say talk to me, talk to me

somebody please talk to me yeah



Oh yeah

Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Everyone needs a hand to hold on to

Don't need to be no strong hand

Don't need to be no rich hand

Everyone just needs a hand to hold on to

(repeat)