Slender Thread Of Hope Lyrics - Steppenwolf

You see that endless line? They're victims of our time 

Whose only crime was to bank on their fathers dreams 

To work hard all your life, to raise your family with your wife 

And to survive all the heartaches and bad breaks fate may bring 

But dreams are seldom real and an aching heart won't heal 

Standing in a line for a meal at a strangers door 

As night begins to fall, they lay down in the hall of the mission 

Of the Salvation Army that is loosing the war 

And they dream of home, where someone's waitin' 

Waitin' by the phone at the end of their rope 

But come early dawn as dreams are fading 

They're hanging by a slender thread of hope 

Now it's closing time again, she turns her collar to the wind 

Goes running in the rain to a friend on the way back home 

To hold the only joy the world did not destroy 

A laughing little brown eyed boy she calls her own 

Though he leads her by the hand and tries to be her little man 

He's really still too young to understand her quiet fears 

Oh, bills weigh on her mind and she hates her daily grind 

'Cause time for romance was impossible to find these last few years 

Now they're goin' home, where no one's waiting 

Weary to the bone, she tries to cope 

Sitting there alone, while slowly fading 

She rocks to sleep her slender thread of hope 

The news comes on at ten, the public servant will explain 

How pouring water on the drowning little man will solve the mess 

To save our way of life and to help us all survive 

Those with nothing will now have to stay alive on even less 

And as he spoke these words of wisdom 

Like a cruel joke beyond his scope 

With just one stroke from his fountain pen 

He cut the last and final thread of hope