Only Hope

I'm over here mourning the death of kindness
Hoping the news is premature
Hoping the morning breaks our blindness
Hoping we find a common cure

Washing my hands with no-lye soap
Only our hope is our only hope

Charlatans sell us our own tension,
sharpen the shame of all our fears
Funny how they all fail to mention
the cracks in their own sham chandeliers

Climbing a ladder of burning rope
Only our hope is our only hope

Cycling like a psycho pope
Peddling despair like peddling dope

Maybe it's just one of my phases
while I await the next new stage,
but I'm sick of these diseased catchphrases.
Hoping the light will snuff this rage.

Til all is revealed, I'll have to cope
dashing away like antelope
past the far reach of the telescope
Only our hope is our only hope

(Stamped on this barrel we keep scraping:
Four Seasons Total Landscaping...)