The preacher talked with me and he smiled Said, come walk with me, come and walk one more mile For once in your life, you're alone But you ain't gotta die, there's no time for the phone I've just gotta get a message to you Hold on, hold on One more hour and my life will be through Hold on, hold on Smile, an everlasting smile, a smile could bring you near to me Don't ever let me find you gone, cause that would bring a tear to me You think that I don't even mean a single word I say It's only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away It's only words, and words are all I have But I gotta get a message to you Hold on, hold on I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I said Till I finally died, which started the whole world living Oh, if I had only seen that the joke was on me That the joke was on me I gotta get a message to you Hold on, hold on And words are all I have to take your heart away