Hopeful

Supposedly it was a wise wise man
 Who said it's better to have loved and lost
 Than never to have loved at all, than never to have loved.
 How many times is the truth that you take to be true
 Just truth falling apart at the same speed as you
 Until it all comes away in a million degrees
 And you're just a few pieces of fallin' debris
 And she's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 I'm coming out of the dark clouds
 Then she went away and she packed all her love and
 I could not believe it how little there was and
 I stood in the cold kitchen with nothin' to say
 Who'd keep the whole world spinning when she went away yeah?
 She kept telling me about the good things I deserved
 That I wanted somebody I'd mistaken for her
 But one look in my eyes and she'd know she was wrong
 So she wouldn't look back at me until she was gone
 How many times did you give all your love and
 Find out it was so far from far from enough?
 I followed her out into the street in the rain
 And the whole world stopped spinning and just went up in flames
 And she's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 
 Coming out of the dark clouds
 She's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 She says it to me often
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 The sunlight corroded and the day started to fail
 The rocks in the road sharpened shadows to nails
 The fence posts were empty and so were the trees
 And the bluebird of youth sung its last tune for me
 I've seen her around now with someone new I don't know
 She likes greed-eyed boys who are haloed in hope
 But I know the look in his eyes and I know all the old signs
 It's just a couple more curves before his own road unwinds
 These days I'm feelin' better about the man that I am
 There's some things I can change and there's others I can't
 I met someone new now I know I deserve
 I never met someone who loves the world more than her
 She has been through her own share of hard times as well
 And she's learned how to tear out the heaven from hell
 Most nights I'm alright still old rocks roll downhill
 But she says I'll get better, she knows that I will
 And she's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 I'm coming out of the dark clouds
 She's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 I'm coming out of the dark clouds
 She's hopeful, hopeful, for me
 I'm coming out of the dark clouds, coming out of the dark clouds