If you find your mind wanders when there's
work to be done Or your thinking's mighty
dark when you're out in the sun If you're
thinking that your life is soon about to fail
You are probably on the wrong end of the
"Gotta Have Hope Scale."

Oh the "Gotta Have Hope Scale" is the
measure of our life It tells us if we're winning in
the real world's strife Or it tells us that the struggle
 is not going well When you see you're
near the bottom of the
"Gotta Have Hope Scale."

Sometime it just ain't easy to keep the pressure on
To pull the broken pieces up where they sure belong
So sometimes we must turn around, get
a kick in the tail To get us on the upside of the
"Gotta Have Hope Scale."

And that's no fun we all agree, to have
to face this fact That without some real hard
work we might not make it back From down
  around the bottom, below where whale poop sails
Down at the very bottom of the
"Gotta Have Hope Scale."

So you take a big, deep breath; dig down
deep in your soul and do it mighty fast,
 before you get too old to remember that its
your life, if you want to let it fail
Cause you spent too much time thinking on
the wrong end of the scale.

So "As the World Turns" so do we,
Just take another try Spread your wings,
grab the air, reach upward toward the sky
Just think about how great it feels as
through the air you sail And count the
numbers as they rise up along the scale.

Then when you get things back up where they
should belong When tears and aggravation
 become a happy song Don't let your
 mind wander back down along the trail
 To the depths of desperation on the

"Gotta Have Hope Scale."

©
Adriaan

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