The Words
Lyrics
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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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