Hope For Always

Perhaps our song with the highest "twang factor", Hope For Always was consistently a good concert song. Maybe it was the very fast tempo, the praise-ful "cry" in the lyrics, or the western theme. Who knows. This song has always been very different from other Lu songs... and that's ok.
 I'm not entirely sure that I understand every line in this song, to be perfectly honest. There is a picture, by, of struggle. There is also a picture of a hope that is only found in "You", that is, Jesus Christ. As we struggle and fail, He can lift us up and make good out of what seems only bad, but we have to go to Him on our knees. Finally, the song wraps up with simple truth... "You, with love and truth, will make us new, and will hold us thru..."
 when 'all is mine' is over
 would You have the time, my friend
 to push me up and over
 hold me till the glory end, and
 when my pain is sober
 would You have the mind to send
 hope for always ever
 hold me - this wicked man and
 me, with pain and all
 might take the fall
 yet grow so tall
 and creeping like a wonder
 is the fear that drives me mad
 "that all is going under,
 all is always ever sad" and
 throwing winter summer
 and breezing me to my greed
 but give me hope for always
 'all' is falling on my knees and
 You, with love and truth
 will make us new
 and will hold us thru
 the sins of the world wouldn't hold You
 though it seems each day i try
 please, bless me with hope for always
 that i might live, might die and
 me, with pain and all
 might take the fall
 yet grow so tall
 You, with love and truth
 will make us new
 and will hold us thru