Hope for the Both of Us
Written by Tenda_Senpai

When I was a boy, my father told me
I could do anything in the world.
When I was a boy, my mother said
The entire world could be mine.
When I was a boy, I had a friend
Who was much older than I:
This friend, he said one day to me:
"You know all they've said is lies."

I grew and I changed, I opened my eyes;
I told my friends what I had seen;
"Life is unfair, nothing is real,
Your hope is just a misplaced dream."
I'd wake up some mornings with nothing to do,
Simply lie in my bed and think.
What if the world held nothing for me:
Since my dreams could never come true.

I had a dream which was simple enough,
I wanted nothing more than for it to be real.
I wanted to have fun, to sit in my room,
And play a video game all day long.
Nothing more I asked, nothing more I needed;
Just that simple bit of joy:
Imagine my pain when I heard one day
That that video game would just not come.

Was that friend right when I was a boy,
Had my parents lied to me?
Was the world really against me,
Was my entire life a sham?
I didn't know what I'd do, I guess I didn't care:
If nothing else, from all of this loss,
I'd only learned one thing:
Why hold faith when it's empty; why dream when it can't be true?

Someone out there had held faith for me,
Someone had kept it real. My old friend,
Who had changed me so long ago, could not follow his own words:
No matter what he told me, no matter what he had said:
He said to still hold dreams, to still hold hope:
He had enough for both of us.
Not too long ago, he came to me, said he had been wrong;
He said not to ever let go, that dreams come true after all.

When I'm a father, I'll talk to my boy
And tell him he can do anything.
When I'm a father, I'll talk to my daughter
And tell her the world's all her own.
Most of all, I'd teach them never to let go:
To hold their faith, to keep their dreams:

Because daddy had held his own quaint dream one day:
And a video game had made it true.