Hope
Hope
”I wanted to address some real issues while encompassing anticipation. When I wrote this song, I was encouraging/reminding myself that, in the midst of all the pain and suffering, there is and always will be hope.” (Emily Brimlow)
HOPE
Written by Emily Brimlow (ASCAP), Nicholas Balachandran (ASCAP)
© 2016 Common Hymnal Publishing (ASCAP), With Primary Colors (ASCAP) (admin by IntegratedRights.com), Unicorn Studio Los Angeles (ASCAP). CCLI 7130504.
INTRO
G D A Bm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
VERSE 1
G D
Long live the people on the streets
A Bm
Hustling all day to go home and feed their families
Just trying to make ends meet
They’re grinding but they’re finding that they still facing defeat
Long live the people that don’t feel equal
Working hard to pay their wages, others playing in casinos
Long live the ones on the run
I hope they find the love they looking for and purpose they’ve been running from
PRE CHORUS
Em Bm
Lord, would you open our eyes to the ones that been despised
F#m
To the people crying out, they don’t have a hand to hold at night
CHORUS
G D
Tell em that there’s hope in every situation
A Bm
All this pain I’m facing, for every dream I’m chasing
There is hope Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
There is hope in every situation, all this pain I’m facing
For every generation
There is hope Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
VERSE 2
So I lift my hands to the God that guides me
To the one that finds me, even in my darkest days he walks beside me
Singing songs of freedom, oh he’s singing songs of life
And they're leading me out of the darkness and they’re bringing me into the light
Hey, he never said it would be easy, no, he never said we would be safe
He never said the path were walking on, no it wouldn’t have hurdles to face
But the Lord did promise me freedom, and the Lord did promise me strength
He said we’d soar on wings of eagles and not grow weary or faint
Writing “hope” was very interesting. It almost feels like I did not write it. It was a moment of inspiration. Within twenty minutes I had written the entire song, chord progression and melody. It was one of those rare moments in songwriting, when the lyrics just spill out of your mouth. Before I wrote hope I had been contemplating the state of the situation in the Middle East, with ISIS and the brutal murders that were happening to innocent peopl. I had also been thinking alot about the poverty we face here in America. I was inspired to write a song for the everyday human, and also for someone that feels hopeless and unheard. There are people here in our own country that are suffering. And there are upper class business men that are lonely and depressed. Hope is something every human needs. (Emily Brimlow)