Every street is dark
And folding out mysteriously
Where lies the chance we take to be
Always working

Reaching out for a hand that we
can't see
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Invitation to the last dance
Then it's time to leave
But that's the price we pay
when we deceive

One another/animal mother
She opens up for free
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's
holding me

Look at the talkbox in mute
frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy
His campfire flickering
on the landscape

That nothing grows on
But time still goes on
And through each life of misery
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me



Lyrics submitted by I Saw Star Wars

Track duration: 03:33

"Hold on Hope" as written by Robert E. Jr. Pollard

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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  • -1
    General Comment:There are so many better Guided by Voices songs, it's irritating that this is the most popular one just because it was on Scrubs.
    Flag jessicalindeon May 26, 2010   Link
  • +3
    General Comment:My brother died of leukemia, my family split up... I've had a rocky time to say the least. Every time I hear this song (and yes, the first time was on Scrubs), it really resonates with me. Although I feel hopeless, hanging from a thread bare line, somehow this stripped down sentiment makes me feel pain yet still be able to endure.

    It's the last thing that's holding me.
    Flag Riobardon August 21, 2009   Link
  • +1
    Song Meaning:i love this song its so great realy the song is saying one thing over and over its telling you to hold on hope. I also think the reason they played it on scrubs that day was because lukimia is such a bad disease there trying to say youll get thrugh this
    Flag jdogfx226on January 25, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:ahhhhh I love this song so much
    Flag wereTHRIVINGon October 01, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Oh, that is so disappointing. I thought that it said "Everybody's got TO hold on hope." That just sounds so much better to me.
    Flag LarryThePenguin12on August 30, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Beautiful song. Good Life is also a great song.
    Flag gofuckyourselfon August 24, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:the whole scrubs soundtrack is awesome, i dunno how i can tell more people about it so yer.
    and i agree with everyone, this song is a great song, about holding on hope. i think we all go through this at some point in our lives.
    Flag wilsonjon October 19, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:scrubs is awesome... ive got a lot of music from there. if you like this you might also like francis dunnery - good life, tahts a great song. another good one is nil lara fighting for my love :D thats my fave, its wicked.
    as to the meaning of this one, i would say that put simply its about the way everyone always hopes and sometimes its the only thing keeping them going. and sometimes the hope jsut isnt there maybe :S its a hard one to comment on really
    Flag aidan1233on June 30, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"This song should be a #1 hit threetimes over. Bad managers or something."

    I kinda laughed out loud when I read this quote. GBV was a lot more than making it big. And then I got to thinking, what if they actually had made it big with this song, and then there was a huge backlash when someone started playing goldheart mountaintop on the radio because everyone thought HOH was their typical sound.
    Flag perfidiaon March 16, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:When there's nothing more...one has to hold onto hope, because it's the last thing one has
    Flag melon_on February 11, 2006   Link

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