Album Diaries | Hold On
Rachel Adell, an American mother of three, living in London is releasing an album after enduring cancer and other challenges. Rachel's hope is that Saturday Sunrise will wrap its arms around you, and help you get through that next dark night, as it has for her.
Song: “Hold On”
Album: Saturday Sunrise 2023
Written: Spanish Fork 2012
Topic: Looking for light during the darkest hours
The inspiration for this came during my separation from Stephen during our twelfth year of marriage. It was such a hard time, and I remember trembling each and every day for four months. Learning to state my needs, let alone stand up for them in a way that affected everyone around me, most especially my children, was an enormous part of me coming into my own.
Over the last decade since I wrote this song, we have been though so many difficult things together. This is a song that I wrote during a hard moment without recognizing how many future moments it would get me through. I hope it gets you through some of yours. This song definitely fits the reoccurring theme throughout this album is that the storm will end and the sun will rise again. Hold on Rachel, relief is around the corner.
The tunnel is long, full of the unknown
There is no light, can’t find my way home
Crumbling I melt, losing all sense of self
So lost and blind, folding all inside my mind
I only see red, inside of my miserable head
I wanna be free, why’s it so out of reach
Hold on, Again
Glimmering light interrupts,
I don’t wanna give up
Where’s that compass come from,
Big mystery from above
Though I’m lost at night,
Gonna keep lookin’ for light
Hold on
Lookin’ for light
Hold on
Hold on
Lookin’ for light
Hold on
Keep lookin’ for light
Written and performed by Rachel Adell
Produced by Craig Sayer