I didn't know if I could do it but I hoped I would
I hoped I would
I would sit up on my bed alone, thinking that I never won't try
But the city gets hard and I feel it on my heart sometimes
That the world's so tall it could probably leave us all behind
But I swing back around when I think of my town
And the nights made warm by the love of my friends
We were all trying to be something back then
The tune we were humming got stuck in my head
I believed and then all of a sudden I left
I was burning down the highway windows open
Screaming at the night till my voice was broken
Thinking that I might make something of this
And that hope’s still the only thing I’m holding
I didn't know if I could do it but I hoped I would
I hoped I would
I didn't know if you would love me but I hoped you could
I hoped you could
I like the way that you talk
Feels like something I ain't know but I sought
That's the feeling you've got
Like a lyric that you know once you hear it you'd thought
I like the way that you think
Feels like a song no one else could sing
But what if you ain't love me back
I thought that you could love me back that night
When I laid with you and I played for you my life
When it came down to it I felt like I knew if I tried
There was a hope you’d see who I hoped I’d be inside
And that hope was the song that kept me going
I didn't know if I could do it but I hoped I would
I hoped I would
I didn't know if you would love me but I hoped you could
I hoped you could
Lately, I've been a little off track
All of these years like a weight on my back
All of these fears I won't make it, I'm faking
I'm afraid I should throw away the faith that I had
But when I finally fall to pieces
Will you tell me I don't need this
Or will you show me to the youth I'd left
Where the hope was the only thing I'd known and
I didn't know if I could do it but I hoped I would
I hoped I would
I didn't know if you would love me but I hoped you could
I hoped you could
