Three Hopeful Thoughts

All this talk of your sweet girlfriend

is startin' to pay off

and the charms that she got from travel

are startin' to wear off



and i hope that you smile tonight

watching the last of your friends arrive

smile and shake their hands



and the hero that you hoped you'd be

never seemed to show up

and if i can keep on talking

there won't be time to give up



and i hope that i drive tonight

into the last of the great sunrises

i'll smile and wave my hand

goodbye



if things don't work out quite the way you

planned it's almost half past two

and i've begun to hate the way you

smile so smile



and i hope that you close your eyes

and block out the pain of a thousand lives

and i hope that you die tonight

just close your eyes there goes the light



smile i'll brave it

while you wave your hand

goodbye