Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Taylor Swift
Canonical path: /taylor-swift/the-trick-to-holding-on
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Trick To Holding On
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The Trick To Holding On
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Let go of the ones who hurt you
Let go of the ones you outgrow
Let go of the words they hurl your way
As you’re walking out the door
The only thing cut and dry
In this hedge-maze life
Is the fact that their words will cut
But your tears will dry
They don’t tell you this when you are young
You can’t hold on to everything
Can’t show up for everyone
You pick your poison
Or your cure
Phone numbers you know by heart
And the ones you don’t answer any more
Hold on to the faint recognition in
The eye of a stranger
As it catches you in its lustrous net
How quickly we become intertwined
How wonderful it is to forget
All the times your intuition failed you
But it hasn’t killed you yet
Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight
Swims and your blazing self-respect
And if you drive the roads of this town
Ones you’ve gone down so many times before
Flashback to all the times
Life nearly ran you off the road
But tonight your hand is steady
Suddenly you’ll know
The trick to holding on
Was all that letting go
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Taylor Swift performs "The Trick To Holding On", and this lyric page sits inside the Taylor Swift catalog on LyroVerse.
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