Linda Allen - If Hope Is a Flower Lyrics
She sits in the dark - her mind on a friendA kind, gentle lover - Lord, she's dreamin'' againAnd her mind tries to warn her with memories of failureBut her heart sits there laughin' - then floats in the windShe's 42 now, but she feels so much olderShe's raised up three children, no help from a manAnd sometimes there were lovers, one after anotherBut the bread on her table always came from her handI'm older now, and I should be much wiserBut sometimes the heart has to take its own timeTo learn what life taught me through heartache and sorrowHow the heart finds its reasons, and makes its own rhymeWhen she was young - she lived in a dreamFull of cowboys and princes and elegant schemesTo be wed to a doctor or a government manA home for the children - a helping handBut the doctor she met was a drunk on the skidsAnd the government worker tried to beat up the kidsSo she gave up the dream, and she looked deep insideAnd she found her own courage - she found her own prideCHORUSAnd her memories gather as she thinks of her lifeAnd the soft lines of livin' shadow her eyesBut if hope is a flower, then heartaches the dewAnd a heart that is strong can encircle the twoCHORUS
