A Girl Named Hope

[Slug]<br>*whispers* Come on, let`s go<br>She abandoned me, left me out in the cold<br>No surprises, I guess that`s how it goes<br>Sits across from me, at a booth in this dive(?)<br>I contemplate how much more I can survive<br>But I`m alive, so I should be content<br>Then tell why the hell my whole world is bent<br>I was sentiment can frustrate the population<br>In-between the alcohol and the copulation<br>What you call it, if you build it I will break it<br>What`s wrong? How you doin`? Nah, save it<br>Gave it(?her?) a fraction of all I had to give<br>I guess I hold a grudge, cause you still got my rib<br>With your beautiful eyes, unscrupulous lies<br>Now watch the circus clown run around in circles and try<br>Seems like all I get to eat is hope<br>Girl, if we got along better we`d be dope<br><br>[Sample]<br>Oh walls, they surround me<br>Loneliness, has found me<br><br>[Slug]<br>And for as much as I complain, I`m lovin` it<br>And I only mention it so that I can rub it in<br>Wake up to the sunlight, shake off last night<br>Check what`s left and try to get the rest right<br>Decision, splitting headache lifting<br>Symptoms matching, mama was afraid of it<br>Knowledge of self ain`t as evil as they made it<br>Call it what you want, if you build it they will break it<br>The plain truth, there`s no substitute<br>But sometimes she bares the disguise (yes you do)<br>A story teller kills(?) with life not hope<br>Girl, if we got along better we`d be dope<br><br>And that`s the sound that a dog will make when he`s just been hit by a car<br>And that`s the tone that hits close to home, when the cocaine outlives the star<br>And that`s the noise that disrupts the boys when the cue ball smacks it goal(?)<br>And these are the words that disturb your earth when I walk away with your hope