There's Hope For the Rest of Us

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There's Hope For the Rest of UsLast night ol' Charlie came byswore he wasn't the same guywho'd soaked his time in sourmash each nighthis last vice was Kools without filterssince he learned to find shelterin the Good Lord's promise of lightsaid my sacrificefreed the scales from his eyeslit a smoke and whispered low"brother, what you did showsthere's hope for the rest of uswhen this world gets the best of usyeah, when one man gives his allso the weak don't have to fallwe can cope because there's hopethere's hope for the rest of us"last March Charlie felt kinda wobblytossed me his key and said I prob'lywas the soberest drunk in the barwell, that curve was dark...the road was freezin'we rolled and who knows the reasonI was thrown from that burnin' carmaybe I shouldna gone backbut I couldn't leave friends like thatwhen I pulled one guy from that hellol' Charlie yelled"there's hope for the rest of uswhen this world gets the best of usyeah, when one man gives his allso the weak don't have to fallwe can cope because there's hopethere's hope for the rest of us"last night Charlie knelt at my gravesaid he knew we'd both been savedhis smoke rings were wreaths at the crossand because the Lord paid the costthere's hope for the rest of uswhen this world gets the best of usyeah, when one man gives his allso the weak don't have to fallwe can cope because there's hopethere's hope for the rest of us(c)2006 Robert George