Josh Ritter - Hopeful lyrics

Supposedly, it was a wise, wise man
Who said it’s better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
Than never to have loved

How many times is the truth that
You take to be true
Just truth falling apart at the
Same speed as you
Until it all comes away at a million degrees
And you’re just a few
Pieces of falling debris?

And she’s hopeful hopeful for me
I'm coming out of the dark clouds
'Cause she went away and she
Packed all her love and
I could not believe it how
Little there was and
I stood in the cold kitchen
With nothing to say
Who’d keep the whole world spinning
When she went away, yeah?

She kept telling me ’bout the
Good things I deserved
That I wanted somebody I’d mistaken for her
But one look in my eyes and
She'd know she was wrong
So she wouldn’t look back at
Me until she was gone

How many times did you give all your love and
Find out it was so far from far from enough?
I followed her out into the
Street in the rain
And the whole world stopped spinning and
Just went up in flames

And she’s hopeful hopeful for me
Coming out of the dark clouds she's hopeful
Hopeful for me she says it to me often

The sunlight corroded and the
Day started to fail the rocks in the road
Sharpened shadows to nails
The fence posts were empty and
So were the trees
Had the bluebird of youth sung
It's last tune for me?

I’ve seen her around now with
Someone new I don’t know
She likes green-eyed boys who
Are haloed in hope
But, I know the look in his eyes
And I know all the old signs
It’s just a couple more curves
Before his own road unwinds

These days I’m feeling better about
The man that I am
There’s some things I can change
And there’s other I can't
I met someone new now I know I deserve
I never met someone loves the
World more than her

She’s been through her own share
Of hard times as well
And she’s learned how to tear
Out the heaven from hell
Most nights I’m all right
Still old rocks roll downhill
But she says I’ll get better
She knows that I will

And she’s hopeful (World is as the world is)
Hopeful for me
(Everybody’s gonna hurt like hell sometimes)
Coming out of the dark clouds
She's hopeful (World is as the world is)
Hopeful for me
(Everybody’s gonna hurt like hell sometimes)
We're coming out of the dark clouds
And she's hopeful (World is as the world is)
Hopeful for me (World is as the world is)
(World is as the world is)
Coming out of the dark clouds
(World is as the world is)
Coming out of the dark clouds
(World is as the world is)
(World is as the world is)