If you find your mind wanders when there’s work to be done,

Or your thinking’s mighty dark when you’re out in the sun,

If you’re thinking that your life is soon about to fail,

You are probably on the wrong end of the “Gotta Have Hope Scale”.

Oh, the “Gotta Have Hope Scale” is the measure of our life.

It tells us if we’re winning in the real world’s strife.

Or it tells us that the struggle is not going well,

When you see you’re near the bottom of the “Gotta Have Hope Scale”.

Sometimes it just ain’t easy to keep the pressure on,

To pull the broken pieces up where they sure belong.

So sometimes we must turn around, get a kick in the tail

To get us on the upside of the “Gotta Have Hope Scale”.

And that’s no fun, we all agree, to have to face this fact

That without some real hard work we might not make it back

From down around the bottom, below where whale poop sails

Down at the very bottom of the “Gotta Have Hope Scale”.

So you take a big deep breath, dig down deep in your soul

And do it mighty fast, before you get too old

To remember that its your life, if you want to let it fail

Cause you spent too much time thinking on the wrong end of the scale.

So “As the World Turns” so do we, just take another try.

Spread your wings, grab the air, reach upward toward the sky.

Just think about how great it feels as through the air you sail

And count the numbers as they rise up along the scale.

Then when you get things back up where they should belong,

When tears and aggravation become a happy song,

Don’t let your mind wander back down along the trail

To the depths of desperation on the “Gotta Have Hope Scale”.

– Adriaan