Hope ft. Wilko Wilkes Lyrics

Hope is an optimistic state of mind, based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in your life, or in the world at large

Hope

Well if there's one thing in this life that makes it all worthwhile that's hope

It's not the things you've done before cos they're gone

And everything you're doing right now feels wrong

You're frantically paddling but on the surface you're a swan

You're looking to the future and it feels like a con

It's murky you've got nothing you can hang your hat upon

The water is rising and you're struggling to cope

It's not particularly enticing but you've gotta have hope

You can get downbeat

You can feel the heat

And you can suffer defeat

But you've gotta have

But you gotta have

So this is for the people that have lost their mojo

Feeling like they're going backwards living life in slo mo

The struggling couple that are doing nothing but bickering

The trauma victim finding everything triggering

The ballerina standing on the edge of a bridge

The broken family at the hospital praying for their kid

The closeted teenager who feels like they can't talk

The stroke survivor re-learning to walk

The woman with a newborn whose partner just left her

While she's caring for her parents in the grip of dementia

The dad going into theatre, nil by mouth

The fella cleaning up the ashes in his burned down house

When all you want to do is leave and you're at the end of their tether

You've got to believe it's gonna get better it's not gonna last forever

You can get downbeat

You can feel the heat

And you can suffer defeat

But you've gotta have

But you've gotta have

You can get downbeat

You can feel the heat

And you can suffer defeat

But you've gotta have