Hope

Music by Rickard Linde.. I’ve crossed a collapsed bridge I sleepwalk the landmine fields I hold the keys to toppled doors I’m told by the ceaseless winds My world turned into dust A cast of rust numb to pain My heart of gold is poached An outcast of a political gain Walking the rickety bridge Each rope holds my last breath A stone’s skid across the surface Hope tinkers on a thread beneath I’ve been through the stifling air My lungs are full of black smoke Eyes behold beauty blind to fear Words that tint souls when spoke Chorus Hope is higher than the great wall It’s knocking on heaven’s door If you can dare to dream, to walk tall Hope is the hurt you’ll feel no more The faint light captured from the darkest sky To illuminate (the future) from deep within your core When the pyramids align with the stars Then the heart is one with the universe Although battered with indelible scars Hope is paying forward never in reverse I’ve survived the rain of fire Lives dealt and sealed in handshakes When my brother is a gun for hire Engulfed in the cataclysmic earthquake Our knuckled arms keep us warm When our hearts grow too cold From the aftermath of the bomb And our young Hope still glows bold I house a broken soul My haggard façade shuts love out To chase my dreams with blistered soles Hope the boots when my feet were in doubt