Song of Hope

In this city died

Every kid who cries

Just gets pacified

And a lesson learned.



But it just seems like they're raised

In a contest to see who wins...



And every song we sing

Just gets pitted to...

The next in line

'Til we fight for rhymes...



And how it kills me to know

It's a struggle that never ends...





But every time I turn

I feel the patient burn

Of a stanza made of hope...



And I can drift into

The simplicity within...





'Cause I know a boy

Who can make a story

From a broken toy

With a little joy...



And I know that one day

His castle crumbles down...



But he clenches.. his teeth.

Holding cried coughs beneath...



And then falls asleep

To dream up another sound...



Exhaling... every chapter...

That he found...

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