Hope Against Hope

It's all coming back to me now

But try as I have to keep

The taste of you off of my tongue

Your face from my fitful sleep

An' I wait and hope against hope like before

An' I wait an' hope that I won't anymore

An' this won't stop till I do

Until I learn to kill the thought

Of everything I could have said

Of everything I wished I'd not

An' I wait, hope against hope like before

An' I wait, hope that I won't anymore

Show rises up from the street

An' a crowd rises up to it's feet

I followed blind after you

I might know better if I'd ever wanted to

The painting here is still not dry

An' I can smell it from the door

It covers every mark you made

The countin' days are keepin' score

An' I wait, hope against hope like before

An' I wait, an' hope that I won't anymore

An' I wait, hope against hope like before

An' I wait, an' hope that I won't anymore