All You Can Do

Hopelessness in the alley

Alone, draggin' his feet

He wasn't born that way

But life has just taught him defeat

So he waits to teach you distrust

From his cold home in the streets

And hope is all that you can do

Hopelessness is on the TV

Infecting sea to shining sea

In the worried eyes of our parents

Try as we might not to believe

And we tried pill and prescriptions

But drugs won't cure this disease

Hope is all that you can do

This is the new year

Nobody knows

Where we are going

What's down the road

The city is humming

The country is cold

But you give me something

Something like hope

Grew up without parents

To teach us wrong from right

So we turned towards many heroes

But still we couldn't sleep at night

So we searched and read and listened

So the songs old prophets sang

Let's all get together friends

And dance away the rain

It's time to get together friends

And dance away the rain

This is the new year

Nobody knows

Where we are going

What's down the road

The city is humming

The country is cold

But you give me something

Something like hope