Hope For Always Lyrics - Poor Old Lu

Perhaps our song with the highest "twang factor", Hope For Always was consistently a good concert song. Maybe it was the very fast tempo, the praise-ful "cry" in the lyrics, or the western theme. Who knows. This song has always been very different from other Lu songs... and that's ok. 

I'm not entirely sure that I understand every line in this song, to be perfectly honest. There is a picture, verse by verse, of struggle. There is also a picture of a hope that is only found in "You", that is, Jesus Christ. As we struggle and fail, He can lift us up and make good out of what seems only bad, but we have to go to Him on our knees. Finally, the song wraps up with simple truth... "You, with love and truth, will make us new, and will hold us thru..." 

when 'all is mine' is over 

would You have the time, my friend 

to push me up and over 

hold me till the glory end, and 

when my pain is sober 

would You have the mind to send 

hope for always ever 

hold me - this wicked man and 

me, with pain and all 

might take the fall 

yet grow so tall 

and creeping like a wonder 

is the fear that drives me mad 

"that all is going under, 

all is always ever sad" and 

throwing winter summer 

and breezing me to my greed 

but give me hope for always 

'all' is falling on my knees and 

You, with love and truth 

will make us new 

and will hold us thru 

the sins of the world wouldn't hold You 

though it seems each day i try 

please, bless me with hope for always 

that i might live, might die and 

me, with pain and all 

might take the fall 

yet grow so tall 

You, with love and truth 

will make us new 

and will hold us thru