• It's true we could end somewhere better
    If I risked my hope and gained your love
    But to be honest it’s a short relation
    And our age keeps us from forging on

    Never open my heart this way
    No chance of moving on
    But hope is here so I want to stay
    I won’t leave what’s not gone

    If there’s a way to negate my temptation
    To put my hope within your grasp
    I would take it without hesitation
    Hope’s the only thing that I’ve got left

    Hope will continue to walk beside me
    Love and hate desert me so
    Footsteps softly treading by me
    Wondering where I’ll go

    Never open my heart this way
    No chance of moving on
    But hope is here so I want to stay
    I won’t leave what’s not gone

    And if I try to follow
    My hope may run away
    I may get a different companion
    I doubt that they will stay

    So I won’t risk my hope on this
    I won’t risk my hope on us
    If hope does ever leave my side
    What will I have to live by

    Never open my heart this way
    No chance of moving on
    But hope is here so I want to stay
    I won’t leave what’s not gone