What do I do to ignore what's behind me?
Do I follow my fate to escape blindly?
Do I hide my pride behind these bad dreams
And give into sad thoughts that are maddening?

Do I let go and try to stand it?
Or do I try to catch them red-handed?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness?
Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?

The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping man
I make the right turns but I'm lost within
I put on my daily facade but then. I just end up
Getting hurt again

Chorus:
By myself (myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself (myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself
I can't hold on
(to what I want when I'm stretched so thin)
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
(Playing against you, I can't win)
Without some failure sinking in

If I turn my back I'm defenseless
And to give in to fate seems senseless
If I hide my pride and I lie sleepless
and won't feel for the cope with my weakness

If I let them go i'll be outdone
But if I try to catch them i'll be outrun
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer
Then i'll be buried in the silence of the answer

(chorus)
By myself (myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I cant rely on myself (myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself
I can't hold on
(to what I want when I'm stretched so thin)
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
(Playing against you, I can't win)
Without some failure sinking in

How do you think
That I've lost so much
I'm always afraid
That I'm out of touch
How do you expect
That I will know what to do
When all I know
Is what you tell me to

Don't you (know)
I can't tell you how to make it (go)
No matter what it do, how hard I (try)
I can't seem to convince myself (why)
I'm stuck on the outside(2x)

I can't hold on
(to what I want when I'm stretched so thin)
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
(Playing against you, I can't win)
Without some failure sinking in

I can't hold on
(to what I want when I'm stretched so thin)
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
(Playing against me, I can't win)
Without some failure somewhere