You Give Us Hope - The Madding Crowd

You give us hope

You give us hope

You are so charming, calming, quite disarming

Better than most folk

And though the world

Is quite a joke

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

You knock the pain

Straight out my brain

And when I see you face I feel as though

I’m free to smile again

We all agree

The knees of bees

Would not be half as great as it comes

Naturally for you to be

You give us hope

You give us hope

You are so charming, calming, quite disarming

Better than most folk

And though the world

Is quite a joke

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

And if ever we are torn asunder

And forced on our own separate ways

Whenever I’m sad I will plunder

The memories of our glory days

That happen to be in the present

Life gets uglier by the day

But your kindness remains effervescent

So it gives me great pleasure to say…

You give us hope

You give us hope

You are so charming, calming, quite disarming

Better than most folk

And though the world

Is quite a joke

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

You give us hope!

You give us hope!

You give life purpose, sense and meaning so please

Don’t you ever croak

From vagabond, up to the pope

Oh, we all love you because now there is some hope

You give us hope!

You give us hope!

If anyone thinks they are better

Then I’ll gladly tell 'em nope

I wrote this song, to let you know

That you imbue in us a shining sense of hope

I’m saying thank you because now there is some hope

Please allow me this one proclamation

That I’ll sing from the rooftops today

It’s an honest form of celebration

Expressed in the purest of ways

I want you to know that the meaning

You bestow on our lives is a ray

Of hope in a world that is rotten

So it gives me great pleasure to say…

Oh, I want you to know that we say…

You give us hope!

You give us hope!

And I just know if we can keep in touch

I might stay off the rope

I couldn’t cope

Should you elope

So stay right where you are and then there’ll be some hope

You give us hope

You give us hope

You are so charming, calming, quite disarming

Better than most folk

And though the world

Is quite a joke

As long as you exist I know there will be hope

I’m saying thank you because now there is some hope

Lyrics and music by Ben Corry

Performed by The Madding Crowd