Hope Then Strife

I think I'm getting it right this time;

I can tell by the way she grins

She put the postcards up on the head of our bed

I can see Algiers

She said don't the streets on Sunday look great

The way they open up their windows

And offer you things you know you'll never buy.

Lord I'm tired

I'm just so tired

Don't say that you agree

With the price you paid for your captivity

Sweet surrender and your poison pen

Are gonna take you and make you whole again

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times you stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

So I went and asked my friend the doctor

'What is it I've got this time? '

He said 'apart from that albatross around your neck

The tests are negative you really are quite fine'

So I went out to the airport to play for my ticket

And someone comes up to me and says

'Hey man, they don t pay for that any more'

Lord I'm tired

I'm just so tired

Don't say that you agree

With the price you paid for your honesty

Sweet surrender and your poison pen

Are gonna take you and make you whole again

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times vou stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

Lord I'm tired

Just so tired

Lord I'm tired

I should retire

Don't say that you agree

With the price at the end Of hostility

Sweet surrender and your poison pen

Are gonna take you and make you whole again

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times you stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times you stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times you stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one

Who liked the lonesome life

All the times you stayed and prayed

And thought you had it made it was for

Hope then strife

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