“Hope Is a Love Song” by Strays Don't Sleep

 

     It is not difficult to define “charisma” to someone. The difficulty is to identify characteristics and attributes that lead to the magnetic quality. “Hope Is a Love Song” might hit our speakers as background music, but the charisma of the vocals soon magnetically draws attention to the song from Strays Don’t Sleep. There is a commitment to the message and a uniqueness to the voice.
 
     The lyrics are included at the bottom of this post. Most lines are only a few words. No line is more than five syllables. But “Hope Is a Love Song” is powerful beyond the reading of the lyrics. Even Strays Don’t Sleep didn’t initially recognize that power. They explain:
  “As we were writing these new Strays songs in 2019, this particular piece we had started constructing kept entering my mind, it was called ‘40 Feet. It was a song I’d thought about quite a bit over the years, it just didn’t feel quite realized but we knew there was something there. We peeled it all away, re-recorded the guitars and discovered ‘Hope is a Love Song.’”
 
     Strays Don't Sleep are based in Nashville. They are Matthew Ryan and Neilson Hubbard. They rejoined after a 15-year hiatus. “Hope Is a Love Song” is one of four songs on a recently released album. They describe the intent of the song cycle of the album “A Short Film for a Long Story,” as a celebration of “the beauty and melancholy in reclamation after a dark time. Sometimes those things that dog us have to be left behind. But first they have to be confronted, called out and dealt with.”
 
     “Hope Is a Love Song” by Strays Don't Sleep

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Lyrics of “Hope Is a Love Song” by Strays Don't Sleep
40 feet
From your door
Now I know
What hope is for
Everything
Is beautiful
Again
 
The lights went out
The room was dark
The world felt strange
I leaned in hard
Everything
Is beautiful
Again
 
22
With summer skin
I almost crashed
The car we’re in
Everything
Is beautiful
Again
 
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song
 
Silver hills
Like Christmas Eve
You’re the only thing
I wanna see
Everything
Is beautiful
Again
 
The air is lit
By fireflies
I see the sparks
In your eyes
Everything
Is beautiful
Again
 
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song
Oh oh oh
Hope is a love song