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HOPE! You lousy vagrant, you've lead me on once more You've tricked me into getting up from my home here, on the floor They say when you've hit rock bottom the only way is to ascend But I was proving moving side to side was a viable uptrend 'Til hope descended like an angel, said "take my hand sweet child" Her promises of palatial glory leave me potent and beguiled But hark! What's this? A serpents hiss? He's tangled round my feet I dared to hope now I'm back on the slope to rejection and defeat I was cosy at the bottom. In my undercroft I've lain But by the streaks on my cheeks and the fire in my lungs I hope I'll never hope again.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 6:46 AM UTC
Hope
HOPE! You lousy vagrant, you've lead me on once more You've tricked me into getting up from my home here, on the floor They say when you've hit rock bottom the only way is to ascend But I was proving moving side to side was a viable uptrend 'Til hope descended like an angel, said "take my hand sweet child" Her promises of palatial glory leave me potent and beguiled But hark! What's this? A serpents hiss? He's tangled round my feet I dared to hope now I'm back on the slope to rejection and defeat I was cosy at the bottom. In my undercroft I've lain But by the streaks on my cheeks and the fire in my lungs I hope I'll never hope again.
jamesdo
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 6:46 AM UTC
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