EXTRA **** "Hang On" with Sam PayneThe Apple Seed • Season 2013, Episode 1279
Apr 3, 2020 • 6m
In these days of flattening the curve, we’re producing the Apple Seed from a couple of home studios – like you, we’ve been self-isolating, and, like you, looking for ways to reach out to our fellow humans. During this time, Sam took to posting to social media a little song every day – something filled with a little hope and a little encouragement to hang on. We thought we’d bring you some of those pieces here, as Apple Seed Extras. These aren’t studio recordings, and you’ll be able to tell – they’re made with a little Canon SLR camera, aimed at Sam while he sits on the piano bench in his office. But we do hope that you enjoy them.
On today’s extra, an original song, written by Sam, called “Hang On.” It’s a song of hard times, hope, and hanging on. Here’s how it goes:
Hang On
With the darkness all around you
When the river goes too deep
When the wolves are on the threshold
And your angels all asleep
And when every way you turn
Just leaves you feeling like a fool
Hang on, oh without you hanging on what would I do.
Though your friends back down behind you
When you need them most of all
Though it’s loneliness that greets you
When you’re up against a wall.
When the things you always leaned on
Don’t turn out to be so true
Hang on, oh without you hanging on what would I do
Hang on, baby hang on
Hang on, oh without you hanging on what would I do.
Oh I know the waves around you
Come on hard and come on fast
And sometimes there’s nothing for it
But to lash you to the mast
When the weariness and fear
Have had their way inside your brain
Baby, hold to me -- this could be the final day of rain
When the sun is lost in shadow
And it’s beaten down your will
When you see your foes a’coming
Like a bad dream o’er the hill
When there’s trouble next in line
And all the way on down the queue
Hang on, oh without you hanging on what would I do