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this is the very first Breetles track committed to tape; I Like All Kinds of Girls was also from same sessions January 1980, mixed March 1982.

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HANG ON TO EVERYTHING
when you call I can't get away
I'm in the back room making space
in the air is history that I made
lock of hair from my first date
there are things you can't throw away
like the prom tickets you have saved
all the years, changes you've been through
silly things mean a lot to you

{chorus} hang on to everything...
hang on to love, hang on to clothes
hang on to everything

now or then, even in-between
playing cards with naked maitre d’s
t-shirts from the Polo Grounds
and you're glad there's money still around
violins that you played in school
pretty girls in photos in your book
souvenirs from birthdays that you turned
fuzzy pens and matches that you burned

{chorus} hang on to everything...
hang on to hope, hang on to soap
hang on to everything

it's not the rising sun to me
or shivers brought on by the sea
strange artifacts when you're no there
they disappear into thin air

{chorus} hang on to everything...
hang on to you hang on to glue
hang on to everything
©Jan 4,1980 pub.BREET MUSIC BMI All rights reserved

credits

from SQUARES IN PAIRS 2021 .​.​.​.​36th anniversary edition, released May 15, 1986
-All instruments [drums, guitars, bass] & vocals- Chris Breetveld
Rich Larsen- backing vocal

-Recorded: Tower Studios, Farmingdale, NJ -Engineers: Chris Cavallaro, Chris Breetveld JAN1980-MAR1982
Music pubisher: Breet Music BMI

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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