Ben Marwood - You Can Hold On Once
Tab by Neil Wicker
wicker101@hotmail.co.uk

This is from the "Exclamation At Asterisk Hash" compilation EP with Oxygen Thief and Jim 
Lockey and is definitely one of my favourite Ben Marwood songs, check it out :)



Intro:

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Verse 1:


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Fiery eyed and foul mouthed she’s had all she can take, of an unresponsive boyfriend who’s
Pushing for a break, and

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Know that I’m the bad guy but I’m bad for goodness sake.


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Verse 2:

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The bitter of mid winder is the time she’ll have to choose, and though I couldn’t force
The issue, cause there’s still so much to lose. And you can


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lead to a house to water but it only thins the glue in this




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Lifelong test.

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You’ll only do your

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Best of times can

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only prove

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that there can be

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no substitute




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For moments when the

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Fear has fled like

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Love annulled my

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fear of death

chorus:
(repeat last 4 bars)
and I gave the girl my body, but it
still was not enough, because time
is an investment and you
 can’t compete with love
(and again)
so we’ll live with these decisions
but it’s this I will impart
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you can hold on once

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but twice will break your heart

intro again (x2)

Verse 3 (same as verse 2)

the moment when the news broke came as hardly a surprise,
for while we all know love lies bleeding yeah it rarely ever dies
oh and romance wasn’t really dead, it merely closed it eyes,
whether wrong or right, you don’t give up the fighting
and the fortitude, the anger and the attitude
the lives we lead without regret and love annulled my fear of death

chorus   -  same apart from the last line:

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twice will break your heart, break your heart





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the best of days, will only prove, that there can be no substitute, for moments when the fear
has fled, like love annulled my fear of death.