Cure your Post-Election Blues with Jason Robert Brown's Song About Hope

Need some cheering up today? Jason Robert Brown is here for you. Below, listen to "Hope," which he will premiere tonight with Kristin Chenoweth in MY LOVE LETTER TO BROADWAY.

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HOPE
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
November 9, 2016

I come to sing a song about hope.
I'm not inspired much right now, but even so,
I came out here to sing a song. So here I go.
I guess I think
That if I tinker long enough, one might appear.
And look! It's here.
One verse is done.
The work's begun.

I come to sing a song about hope.
In spite of everything ridiculous and sad,
Though I'm beyond belief depressed, confused and mad,
Well - I got dressed.
I underestimated how much that would take.
I didn't break
Until right now.
I sing of hope
And don't know how.

So maybe I can substitute "strength,"
Because I'm strong.
I'm strong enough.
I got through lots of things I didn't think I could,
And so did you.
I know that's true.

And so we sing a song about hope.
Though I can't guarantee there's something real behind it,
I have to try to show my daughters I can find it,
And so today -
When life is crazy and impossible to bear -
It must be there.
Fear never wins.
That's what I hope.
See? I said "hope."
The work begins.

c 2016 Jason Robert Brown