Perhaps our song with the highest "twang factor", Hope For Always was consistently a good concert song. Maybe it was the very fast tempo, the praise-ful "cry" in the lyrics, or the western theme. Who knows. This song has always been very different from other Lu songs... and that's ok.



I'm not entirely sure that I understand every line in this song, to be perfectly honest. There is a picture, verse by verse, of struggle. There is also a picture of a hope that is only found in "You", that is, Jesus Christ. As we struggle and fail, He can lift us up and make good out of what seems only bad, but we have to go to Him on our knees. Finally, the song wraps up with simple truth... "You, with love and truth, will make us new, and will hold us thru..." 





when 'all is mine' is over

would You have the time, my friend

to push me up and over

hold me till the glory end, and



when my pain is sober

would You have the mind to send

hope for always ever

hold me - this wicked man and



me, with pain and all

might take the fall

yet grow so tall



and creeping like a wonder

is the fear that drives me mad

"that all is going under,

all is always ever sad" and



throwing winter summer

and breezing me to my greed

but give me hope for always

'all' is falling on my knees and



You, with love and truth

will make us new

and will hold us thru



the sins of the world wouldn't hold You

though it seems each day i try

please, bless me with hope for always

that i might live, might die and



me, with pain and all

might take the fall

yet grow so tall



You, with love and truth

will make us new

and will hold us thru