Hopeful

Supposedly, it was a wise, wise man Who said it’s better to have loved and lost Then never to have loved at all Never to have loved How many times is the truth that you took to be true? Just truth falling apart at the same speed as you? Until it all comes away at a million degrees? And you’re just a few pieces of falling debris? And she’s hopeful Hopeful for me I'm coming out of the dark clouds She went away and she packed all her love and I could now believe it how little there was and I stood in the cold kitchen with nothing to say Who’d keep the whole world spinning when she went away again? She kept telling me ’bout the good things I deserved That I wanted somebody I’d mistaken for her But one look in my eyes and she’d know she was wrong So she wouldn’t look back at me until she was gone How many times did you give all your love and Just to find out it was so far from far from enough? I followed her out into the street in the rain And the whole world stopped spinning and just went up in flames And she’s hopeful Hopeful for me Coming out of the dark clouds Hopeful Hopeful for me She says it to me often The sunlight corroded and the day started to fail The rocks in the road sharpened shadows to nails The fence posts were empty and so were the trees Had the bluebird of youth sung its last tune for me I’ve seen her around now with someone new I don’t know She likes green-eyed boys who are haloed in hope But I know the look in his eyes and I know all the old signs It’s just a couple more curves before his own road unwinds These days I’m feeling better about the man that I am There’s some things I can’t change and there’s other I can I met someone new now I know I deserve I never met someone loves the world more than her She’s been through her own share of hard times as well And she’s learned how to tear out the heaven from hell Most nights I’m all right, still old rocks roll downhill But she says I’ll get better, she knows that I will And she’s hopeful (World is as the world is) Hopeful for me (Everybody’s gonna hurt like hell sometimes) Coming out of the dark clouds She's hopeful (World is as the world is) Hopeful for me (Everybody’s gonna hurt like hell sometimes) I'm coming out of the dark clouds She's hopeful (World is as the world is) Hopeful for me (World is as the world is) (World is as the world is) I'm coming out of the dark clouds (World is as the world is) I'm coming out of the dark clouds (World is as the world is) (World is as the world is)