The Words

Lyrics

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Hope Street artwork

Hope Street

Folk / Reflective

Verse 1

Down on Hope Street where the lights burn low A man with a cardboard sign and nowhere to go He used to have a family, a house, a name Now the cold wind's all that knows him, and the falling rain

Chorus

Hope Street, hope street Where the broken come to find their feet Hope Street, hope street Every soul deserves a place to sleep Hope Street

Verse 2

A young girl walks by, she looks the other way She's got her own troubles at the end of the day But something makes her stop, she reaches in her bag Hands him a dollar and a smile — that's all he had

Bridge

We're all just one bad day from standing in that line One twist of fate away from losing what is mine So look a little longer at the faces that you pass Every one of them's a story, every one of them will last

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