On Hold - Orleans

Your voice comes through the wire

Then it’s not there at all

I’m left holding this piece of plastic

Wondering why did you call

Is it just a bad connection?

Should I hang up and try again?

Is it just my imagination

Or is another call coming in?

You’ve got to hold me, I cry

Will you hold?

You reply

I want you to hold me

But you just put my love on hold

I can’t get a word in edgewise

Between all the things that you do

I can hear you reach for the button

When the talk turns away from you

It’s been such a long, long distance

Such a long, long time

But how can I make contact

When there’s no one on the line?

You’ve got to hold me, I cry

Will you hold?

You reply

I want you to hold me

But you just put my love on hold

Hold me, I cry

Will you hold?

You reply

I want you to hold me

But you just put my love on

Hold me, I cry

Will you hold?

You reply

I want you to hold me

But you just put my love on hold

Put my love on hold

I’m cryin', hold me, I cry

Will you hold?

You reply

I don’t wanna cry

Hold me, I cry

Don’t you put my love on hold

Put, put my love, put my love on hold, baby

Will you hold me?

I cry

I could wait forever

Will you hold?

You reply

Hold me, I cry

Don’t you put my love on hold