Текст песни: If Hope Is a Flower + перевод

She sits in the dark — her mind on a friend

A kind, gentle lover — Lord, she’s dreamin'' again

And her mind tries to warn her with memories of failure

But her heart sits there laughin' - then floats in the wind

She’s 42 now, but she feels so much older

She’s raised up three children, no help from a man

And sometimes there were lovers, one after another

But the bread on her table always came from her hand

I’m older now, and I should be much wiser

But sometimes the heart has to take its own time

To learn what life taught me through heartache and sorrow

How the heart finds its reasons, and makes its own rhyme

When she was young — she lived in a dream

Full of cowboys and princes and elegant schemes

To be wed to a doctor or a government man

A home for the children — a helping hand

But the doctor she met was a drunk on the skids

And the government worker tried to beat up the kids

So she gave up the dream, and she looked deep inside

And she found her own courage — she found her own pride

And her memories gather as she thinks of her life

And the soft lines of livin' shadow her eyes

But if hope is a flower, then heartaches the dew

And a heart that is strong can encircle the two

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