Hope

A baby boomer's lullaby came floating
 Through my screen on Channel nine
 I wouldn't be tuned in if I weren't back home
 In Bendigo
 My uncle Pete, he's complaining 'bout the greenies
 He says that they have gone too far, I say Pete
 They don't go far enough
 I'm back in Melbourne, I'm not doing the best
 I can
 On bad days I'm a parasite, on my good days
 I say at least I tried
 I'm getting asthma as I run for the train
 Is it genetic from my family or is it just harder
 To breathe these days?
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 And it might be hopeless but if I lose hope
 I bring on that ending
 And it might be hopeless but if I lose hope
 I bring on that ending
 And it might be hopeless but if I lose hope
 I bring on that ending
 And it might be hopeless but if I lose hope
 I bring on that ending
 I got myself so tangled that I can't say a word
 But I'm screaming in
 My head short circuits, every thought runs out
 Before it can
 Go anywhere, drive away and let a dusty
 Horizon break me from this cycle of inertia
 I'm so furious at my trembling, idle hands
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 I'm ashamed of my own blood, of my breath
 And I fear every step that I take on
 The world keeps turning and it don't give a
 Damn about thoughts that I don't say
 A loud noise is building, it's a dissonant
 Chaos of words but it's better than
 Silence is drowning, tell me which way's
 The surface and I'll swim for my life
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 And if I can't hope, nothing's ever gonna change
 So let your eyes roll, you'll still be cool when
 We're in flames
 And if I can't hope, nothing's ever gonna change
 So let your eyes roll, you'll still be cool when
 We're in flames
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 I could stockpile in the basement, be a ruthless
 Survivor itching to prove that violence is our
 Nature and society was fleeting and futile
 Take the satisfaction when my cynical
 Conclusions come to fruition
 Will I win then, when everyone is as selfish
 And careless as me?
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 And if I can't hope, nothing's ever gonna change
 So let your eyes roll, you'll still be cool when
 We're in flames
 And if I can't hope, nothing's ever gonna change
 So let your eyes roll, you'll still be cool when
 We're in flames
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 And it might be hopeless but I've gotta try it
 It's better than lying down and bringing on
 Our fate
 And it might be hopeless but I've gotta try it
 It's better than lying down and bringing on
 Our fate