Ambrosia – Holding On To Yesterday lyrics

Ambrosia – Holding On To Yesterday lyrics

Well, I keep holding on to yesterday
I keep holding on enough to say that I'm wrong
I keep thinking that I'm lonely
But it's only missing you inside
Days when we were once together
Seems we'd never come alive
So I keep holding on to yesterday
I keep holding on enough to say that it's wrong
Lord I don't know when I'll see you
I can't reach you anymore
Well if I'd only known I'd need you
Then I'd keep you like before

Ooo ooo ooh
Ahh ahh ahh

Well I keep holding on to yesterday (yesterday)
I keep holding on enough to say
That I'm wrong wrong wrong to keep holding on
My yesterdays have all gone by...

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Unregistered 2018-12-05 23:07:10

I’m not religious but it’s about him losing his faith everything you say is internalized and it’s about him losing a connection with God, sorry .I listened many times and I’ve never even looked at the lyrics so I thought it was about a woman but it’s all in his own head hundred percent so it’s about God and not a woman

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Unregistered 2014-09-24 13:44:25

This man's heart was broken long ago by his first true love. She left him standing, life never to be the same. He yearns for the kind of deep love he once felt and feels like it will never repeat. A hopeless sadness only she can save him but he can't even reach her. A hopeless sadness someone needs to show him real love again.

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Unregistered 2018-03-22 10:26:13

He longs for the way it used to be. A sad man wanting this woman he loves so much to love him as he does her but before he so obviously took it all for granted. But in the end, it is the end.and he knows it but man he longs to have it back. So he holds on to the past ( yesterday ). But the if I'd only known I'd need you then I'd keep you like before. To me he is saying if I had ever thought you would leave I would have never quit with the small things, the kisses, dancing in the kitchen, calling just to say I love you, not taking the small things for granted. All the things he needs to keep this love alive and not a yesterday's romance.

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BrotherChris 2021-06-21 22:43:04

This is a song about regret as much as loss. It is likely our protagonist if you will had the love of this woman who he mistreated in some way to lose that love. Perhaps he took her for granted figuring she would always be around. Maybe he had too much pride to admit how much she meant to him and she simply moved on. He obviously treated her more like a possession that a person. No that he realizes his mistake, she is long gone. There is deep regret conveyed through this lyric. Powerful.

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greggb57 2022-09-14 20:37:51

The first Unregistered user is wrong. It's obvious that the protagonist has a broken heart over a woman that he may never see again. He regrets whatever happened they led to his loss.
I love the harmonies in this song. They go right to the listener's emotions and heart. His grief is almost palpable. I got goose bumps the first time I heard this song, so long ago when I was in my first round of college. It almost brought me to tears. It still plays with my emotions.

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BrotherChris 2021-06-21 22:40:16

This is a song about regret as much as loss. It is likely our protagonist if you will had the love of this woman who he mistreated in some way to lose that love. Perhaps he took her for granted figuring she would always be around. Maybe he had too much pride to admit how much she meant to him. He obviously treated her more like a possession that a person. No that he realizes his mistake, she is long gone. There is deep regret conveyed through this lyric. Powerful.

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