[Verse 1]
The road is alight with quiet lonely deaths and to this day
The guns we stored away show we were soldiers once but left
The battles unfought, the lessons untaught
But now we've brought you here, Celine
Scarred with festival wounds
And it seems like...

[Chorus]
It's not an easy thing to hold you close
It's not an easy thing to hold you dear
It's not an easy thing to lift you up, regardless
It's not an easy thing to hold you down

[Verse 2]
And it's all in the fight, it's quite like the old men said:
It's all going to hell like innocence
That dumb leper who lost his bell
You're wandering the world meaning no harm, finding no calm
War like peace is tidy and cleat at a distance
Yet still it seems like...

[Chorus]
It's not an easy thing to hold you close
It's not an easy thing to hold you dear
It's not an easy thing to lift you up, regardless
It's not an easy thing to hold you down
[Bridge]
Hand in hand, with measured steps and slow
We take the solitary way
Earthly strong and earthly wise
Now go name your fate, name your demise

[Skit]
Ich fürchte mich so vor der Menschen Wort
Ich bin zu Hause zwischen Tag und Traum
Sie sprechen alles so deutlich aus
Zwischen Tag und Traum
Und hier ist Beginn und das Ende ist dort
Und wachen—
Mich bangt auch ihr Sinn
Zwischen Tag und Traum
Zwischen Tag und Traum

[Chorus]
It's not an easy thing to hold you close
It's not an easy thing to hold you dear
It's not an easy thing to lift you up, regardless
It's not an easy thing to hold you down