Hold Tight (Justin Bieber song)

* Hold Tight
* Grip Tight

* Single
* Album

### **Written by**

Justin Bieber / Dominic Jordan / James Giannos / Jason Boyd / Jamal Rashid / Ashley Sadler

### **Produced by**

The Audibles / Poo Bear (co-producer) / Mally Mall (co-producer)

## Additional information

### **Engineer(s)**

TEK (additional) / Daniela Rivera (additional)

### **Mixed by**

Phil Tan

“**Hold Tight**” is a song recorded by Canadian singer Justin Bieber. It was released on October 21, 2013.

## Background

The song was first called "**Grip Tight**". It was a pulsing, dirty club track that Poo Bear had prepared for his own solo project in 2012. Justin Bieber wanted the track. Poo Bear told him: “You’re 18, and it’s a very sexual song. You can’t go from singing ‘Beauty and a Beat’ to ‘Grip Tight.’ ” Poo Bear changed “Grip Tight” to “Hold Tight” (“That way it could be about a hug situation”), and the song became their first collaboration.

## Music video

Justin Bieber - Hold Tight (Official Lyric Video)
## Lyrics

[Intro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Happy bearthday

[Chorus]

Oh whoa whoa, whoa, that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

Lips won’t let me go, lips won’t let me go, oh

That hold on tight, that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

[Verse 1]

Don’t let this go to your head

But you’re the best I’ve ever had

Not to mention that thing is swollen

You got me oh so in a trance

Something like a ziploc, but a lip lock

Want you wrapped around my arm like a wrist watch

Oh, so hard walking out

Got me stuck like krazy glue, ooh

[Chorus]

That hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

Lips won’t let me go, lips won’t let me go, oh

That hold on tight, that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

[Verse 2]

Got me tossing turning in the bed

Your place is where I’d rather be instead

You don’t know your strength

Missing you is like adrenaline

Ooh when you got me in a gridlock, what a great spot

Yeah that turned up kind of love and it just won’t stop

No, so hard walking out

Got me stuck like krazy glue, ooh-wee

[Chorus]

That hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

Lips won’t let me go, lips won’t let me go, oh

Ooh that hold on tight, that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go, no baby

[Bridge]

Holding back the faces I would make

I’m a fan and you’re the rockstar, making it hard on me

Visualise a monster, ‘cause you’re too bad for me

Shot that arrow, I’m hit, need you right near me

I try to maintain

So don’t mind if I turn away, no no

I try to maintain

So don’t mind if I turn away

[Chorus]

Ooh that hold on tight

That hold on tight, oh whoa, that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

Lips won’t let me go, lips won’t let me go, oh

That hold on tight, that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go, no

Justin Bieber sometimes performed the original version.

## Lyrics

[Chorus]

That hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

That hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

[Verse 1]

Don’t let this go to your head

But you’re the best I’ve ever had

Not to mention that thing is swollen

You got me oh so in a trance

Something like a gridlock, but a headlock

Got me all turned up like a Patron shot

So hard pulling out

When I’m in that sticky glue, ooh-wee

[Chorus]

Yeah that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

That hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

[Bridge]

Holding back the faces I would make

I’m a fan and you’re the rockstar, making it hard on me

Visualise a monster, ‘cause you’re too bad for me

Shot that arrow, I’m hit, need you right near me

I try to maintain

So don’t mind if I turn away

Yeah, I try to maintain

So don’t mind if I turn away

[Chorus]

Yeah that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight, ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

Ooh that hold on tight

Yeah that hold on tight

Ooh that hold on tight

Them lips won’t let me go

## References

1. ↑ "Hold Tight". *ACE Repertory*.
2. ↑ Coscarelli, Joe (October 15, 2015). "Poo Bear, Speaking Softly and Carrying a Bieber Comeback". *The New York Times*.