In the long line behind us of the fallen dominos Are the faceless men and women All the lives you will never know In the darkest nights I live through Hear them whisper in my dreams "We are the oak of a thousand branches And the roots have dug so deep" Hold on through your desert Oh hold on to the reins Oh hold on to wonder Our story in your veins Once we were children Above us burned the stars And now we come to you in your darkest hour As you are who we are We would stare into our fires As you have done tonight Let the ashes know what's right Then you can decide "Hold on you know what we know Your dreams are our own You'll find out in time" Oh hold on to memory Hold on to the edge Hold on to stories The decision that you made Oh find your direction Oh hang on for your life With yesterday just a blur of grey Spinning in the wheels of time The Great Wall of China Is going to crumble in the end And the graves that still surround it Echo countless wasted men In the brotherhood of factories Where the bonds are forged in steel By the hammer of redemption In the fires of gasoline So hold on to your brother Hold on to your team Oh fight your every hour 'cause When it hurts you start to win Oh hold on to something You can do it if you try There's a wedge between the will and when But the walls are closing in We were thrown out of our lives And across a great divide But as long as you hold on You keep us alive