Story Behind The Song

Long-distance love. "All that we do to keep the dream alive."

Lyrics

Life on Hold © 2013 Ken Kahn

I do not like this silver plane, this shaky ground,
Your strange new travelling companions
This jetway that absorbs our love as you walk down.
All this stillness, sad farewells and standing 'round.

It feels like life is put on hold when you're away.
A strange suspended animation.
I lose my place, I lose my easygoing smile.
Endless days of wandering inattention.

But we were meant to be together always.
Within these arms I will enfold you.
This brief eternity that we must work through,
Until we stand soul to soul, and say goodbye to life on hold.

I hold the things we do to keep this dream alive.
I hold our trust in one another.
I hold the promise of a day when this is done,
Finally take this magic so much further

To never waken in the dawn with darkest fears.
Erase uncertainty and creeping doubt.
To not have every day together be so dear.
Finally both be living in the here and now.

But we were meant to be together always.
Within this heart I will enfold you.
This brief eternity that we must work through,
Until we stand soul to soul, and say goodbye to life on hold.

Each and every whisper on the phone.
Every midnight look on the pixel screen.
Every bond of trust we build and labor to sustain.
Each emotion that we dare express .
Each sweetly spoken caress.
Each dream of standing soul to soul,
And no more life on hold.

But we were meant to be together always.
Within my heart I will enfold you.
This brief eternity that we must work through.
Until we stand soul to soul, and say goodbye to life on hold.