A Little Bit of Hope Video (MV)

Hard times
Of those there have been plenty
No home, no food, no mercy, no money
Not a speck
Of comfort up ahead
Nothing but nightmare, a dream of deliverance dead
That said what was left
In a vagabond breath
With the crack cocaine and the crystal meth
The crumpling crayon of childhood vision
Melts under the rain of Satanic permission
To give Job a job
Regardless of the wage
Holding tight to the faith in an invisible cage
One remedy reaches through the bars of the bane
As the cemetery teaches how to love the remaining
Melody of the lost-cause blues
Singing that prayer higher than the brain that I swear I abused
On the back of a memory made out of tragic
Memories remembering that forgetting is magic
Like I once knew a boy who didn't know how to hate
Til one day long ago went wrong and he was late
To the first day of school kicking cares in the air
Fresher than the fact that life is not always fair
So there I was open to the suffering and the sources
Of abuse an excuse for addiction, divorces
Skipping out on the rocks with a slice of the real
To prove to my reflection I could really still feel
And that's where that boy was left with nothing but the scattered
Realizations that love's not a complicated matter
That bad is necessary to carry the spirit
To a place so low that the ear can't hear it
What's a kid to do alone against the rest of the beings blessed
But to accept that suffering is a test
And to know in his heart that you can hear him right now
In the prayer he sent up with a wish to allow you

A little bit of hope goes a long, long way
(Just look up at the sky tonight)
Because you know you can always have a brighter day
(Where the background's black but the stars are bright)
Where the Sun shines through all the shadows of the past
(For you)
And you can believe and breathe the truth at last
(Just for you)
Just keep your eyes on the light in your soul
(Take it in when it's all you got)
Never forget, the Universe has made you whole
(So much more than just a thought)
Not a flaw in your core no matter how dark the night
(Comes true)
Your light's a spark born to ignite
(It will come true)
A little bit of hope goes a long, long way
(Just look up at the sky tonight)
Because you know you can always have a brighter day
(Where the background's black but the stars are bright)
Where the Sun shines through all the shadows of the past
(For you)
And you can believe and breathe the truth at last
(Just for you)
Just keep your eyes on the light in your soul
(Take it in when it's all you got)
Never forget, the Universe has made you whole
(So much more than just a thought)
Not a flaw in your core no matter how dark the night
(Comes true)
Your light's a spark born to ignite
(It will come true)

So this is for the kid without a shred of light
Holding on to these words in the clutches of night
A bus stop for a bed, a garbage can for a meal
The only break you get broke is when you beg or steal
What's real is the dawn and the end of this pain
In a life that makes sense of material gain
It's the same struggle from the beginning of winning
Try to slow down sin but the world's still spinning
So the Sun rises high and melts away dark skies
Even misery flees from optimistic eyes
Lift 'em to the future don't ever look down for doubt
Benefit of the faith when you're down and out
You're up and in time terrible but ladders are climbed
One little rung at a time, it's an elusive design
Breaking broken bread balances the meanest life challenges
With the heart healed by the softening of callouses

A little bit of hope goes a long, long way
(Just look up at the sky tonight)
Because you know you can always have a brighter day
(Where the background's black but the stars are bright)
Where the Sun shines through all the shadows of the past
(For you)
And you can believe and breathe the truth at last
(Just for you)
Just keep your eyes on the light in your soul
(Take it in when it's all you got)
Never forget, the Universe has made you whole
(So much more than just a thought)
Not a flaw in your core no matter how dark the night
(Comes true)
Your light's a spark born to ignite
(It will come true)
A little bit of hope goes a long, long way
(Just look up at the sky tonight)
Because you know you can always have a brighter day
(Where the background's black but the stars are bright)
Where the Sun shines through all the shadows of the past
(For you)
And you can believe and breathe the truth at last
(Just for you)
Just keep your eyes on the light in your soul
(Take it in when it's all you got)
Never forget, the Universe has made you whole
(So much more than just a thought)
Not a flaw in your core no matter how dark the night
(Comes true)
Your light's a spark born to ignite
(It will come true)