Lyrics
Intro: Britt Nicole
It feels like a tear in my heart
Like a part of me missing
And I just can't feel it
I've tried and I've tried
And I've tried
Intro: NF
Tears on my face I can't take it
If lonely is a taste then it's all that I'm tasting
Do you hear my cry?
I cry, oh
Hook: Britt Nicole & NF
Can you hold me? (x2)
Can you hold me in your arms?
Verse 1: NF
Just wrap me in your arms, in your arms
I don't wanna be nowhere else
Take me from the dark, from the dark
I ain't gonna make it myself
Put your arms around me (x2)
Let your love surround me
I am lost
I am lost
Bridge: Britt Nicole & NF
If I ain't got you here
If I ain't got you, I ain't got nothing at all
Hook
Can you hold me? (x2)
Can you hold me in your arms?
Verse 2: NF & Britt Nicole
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, I feel like it's just me, feel like it's just me
What it gon' take? What it gon' be?
I don't even know
(It's not just you)
But I'm lonely
Feeling like I don't even know me, I don't even know me
(I feel it too)
Gotta have you gotta see you
(Yeah the only thing I have to think about
The only one I that can?t live without)
I see you
(I need you to hold me now)
Bridge: NF & Hook: Britt Nicole
If I ain't got you (x2)
I ain't got nothing (x2)
If I ain't got you
I ain't got you
If I ain't got you
I'm lonely
If I ain't with you I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I need you
I need you
Hook: NF & Britt Nicole
Outro: NF & Hook: Britt Nicole
Feel like it's just me, like it's just me
What it gon' take? What it gon' be?
I don't even know, I don't even know
But I'm lonely, lonely
Feel like I don't even know me
Feels like I don't even know me
I don't even know me
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Meaning & Inspiration
Can You Hold Me gives voice to loneliness, emotional exhaustion, and the need for a presence strong enough to dispel darkness. The repeated plea to be held is not presented as quick relief; it comes from someone who admits that self-sufficiency has reached its limit. The exchange between the voices also prevents the song from reducing pain to a solitary experience.
Its images of being surrounded by love and drawn from the dark have a natural connection to the biblical picture of God as a near refuge for the brokenhearted. The lyrics do not define every detail of that connection, but they dod capture the humbleness of a cry for help. Hope appears not as the absence of pain, but as the possibility that loving presence can meet it.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 34:18 The psalm says the Lord is near to the brokenhearted.
- Psalm 46:1 The psalm describes God as refuge and present help in trouble.