As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
I drink to keep body and soul apart.
There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job