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Artist: Smash Mouth
Canonical path: /smash-mouth/hang-on
Related lyric paths: 6
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Hang On
Read Hang On lyrics by Smash Mouth on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Hang On
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Things are getting weird
Things are getting tough
Nothing's makin' sense but you keep on lookin up
They tell you to be true
You're tryin' every day
To keep it on the real still you gotta find a way
To make your mama happy
To make your papa proud
You wanna turn it up but all you hear is tone it down
So gather around i'm here to say
You'll never make everybody's day
But while you're around you might as well
Catch the tiger by its tail and
Hang on hang on hang on
Everybody just
Get on get on get on
Get started
And go on go on go on
Everybody just hold on
Sometimes i wanna cry
And throw the towel in
They try to beat me down but I'll take it on the chin
And everywhere i go people are the same
They just wanna know that everything will be ok
If things are gettiing rough
Turn it back around
You gotta turn it up when they tell you tone it down
So gather around i'm here to say
You'll never make everybody's day
But while you're around you might as well
Catch the tiger by its tail and
Hang on hang on hang on
Everybody just
Get on get on get on
Get started
And go on go on go on
Everybody just hold on
Just hang on
So gather around i'm here to say
You'll never make everybody's day
But while you're around you might as well
Catch the tiger by its tail and
Hang on hang on hang on
Everybody just
Get on get on get on
Get started
And go on go on go on
Everybody just hold on
Hang on hang on hang on
Everybody just
Get on get on get on
Get started
And go on go on go on
Everybody just hold on
Just hang on
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