Hope Then Strife Lyrics - Go-betweens

I think I'm getting it right this time 

I can tell by the way she grins 

She put the postcards up on the head of our bed 

I can see Algiers 

She says, "Don't the streets on Sunday look great 

The way they open up their windows 

And offer you things you know you'll never buy?" 

Lord, I'm tired, I'm just so tired 

Don't say that you agree 

With the price you paid for your captivity 

Sweet surrender and your poison pen 

Are gonna take you and make you whole again 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

So I went and asked my friend, the doctor 

"What is it I've got this time?" 

He said, "Apart from that albatross around your neck 

The tests are negative, you really are quite fine" 

So I went out to the airport to play for my ticket 

And someone comes up to me and says 

"Hey man, they don't pay for that any more" 

Lord, I'm tired, I'm just so tired 

Don't say that you agree 

With the price you paid for your honesty 

Sweet surrender and your poison pen 

Are gonna take you and make you whole again 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

Lord, I'm tired, just so tired 

Lord, I'm tired, I should retire 

Don't say that you agree 

With the price at the end of hostility 

Sweet surrender and your poison pen 

Are gonna take you and make you whole again 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope then strife 

Never gonna be the one who said you were the one 

Who liked the lonesome life 

All the times you stayed and prayed and thought you 

Had it made, it was for hope