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Artist: Colin Hay
Canonical path: /colin-hay-band/to-have-and-to-hold
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To Have and To Hold
Read To Have and To Hold lyrics by Colin Hay on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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To Have and To Hold
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Into the desert I run
Into the blinding sun
I know that you will come
To have and to hold
I sleep-walk in the night
I see your face
It's burning bright
I reach up into the light
To have and to hold
When will you come
And how will I know
I will wait down by the waterside
I look around at the world I see
Pain and kindness uncertainty
This is not what was meant to be
To have and to hold
Maybe we meet
A long time ago
When I was a man walking blind
I many be searching my life through
I may standing right next to you
This time I'll know just what to do
To have and to hold
And I can see quite clearly now
And I can see quite clearly now
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Colin Hay performs "To Have and To Hold", and this lyric page sits inside the Colin Hay catalog on LyroVerse.
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