[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