Dear Hope – English Lyrics

• By: Sara Bareilles
• Album: More Love - Songs From Little Voice Season 1

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Read a book on Hemingway

Closed my eyes to see

The man himself appeared to say

To write is just to bleed

So I will write it down

All the jagged edges

The ugliness I've seen

Until I change the truth

Rearrange the letters

For beauty underneath, hmm

Dear hope

If you can hear me, don't go

I don't feel you now

But I know you're there

Dear hope

I could really use you now

Throw me a rope

Throw me a rope

Dear hope

I can't seem to shake it yet, feeling that

Things may never change

It always breaks my heart when broken parts

Ache to heal again

So I will write it down

And make jagged edges

Into something I can hold

Don't wanna lose my way

Like dear Hemingway

So I won't let go, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Dear hope

If you can hear me, don't go

I don't feel you now

But I know you're there

Dear hope

I could really use you now

Throw me a rope

Throw me a rope

Throw me a rope

Throw me a rope

Dear hope

Key Grammar Structures

• Read a book on Hemingway

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ The phrase uses the Present Perfect Tense with 'have read' to indicate an action completed in the past with relevance to the present.

• The man himself appeared to say

  ➔ Past Simple Tense with 'appeared'

  ➔ The Past Simple Tense is used with 'appeared' to describe a completed action in the past.

• To write is just to bleed

  ➔ Present Simple Tense with 'is'

  ➔ The Present Simple Tense with 'is' is used to state a general truth or fact.

• Until I change the truth

  ➔ Subordinating Conjunction 'Until'

  ➔ The subordinating conjunction 'until' is used to introduce a subordinate clause indicating a condition or time.

• Dear hope, if you can hear me, don't go

  ➔ Conditional Clause with 'if'

  ➔ The conditional clause 'if you can hear me' expresses a condition that must be met for the main clause 'don't go' to occur.

• I don't feel you now, but I know you're there

  ➔ Contrastive Conjunction 'but'

  ➔ The contrastive conjunction 'but' is used to connect two contrasting ideas: 'I don't feel you now' and 'I know you're there'.

• Throw me a rope

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ The Imperative Mood is used to give a direct command or request, as in 'Throw me a rope'.