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