Jimmy Lee Hook & The Long Island Sound

Lyrics

Verse:
I’ve been taken to school, I’ve been played like a fool, Been the talk of the neighborhood.
I’ve been used to like a tool, it’s been cruel and uncool. When I just needed something good.
But a hopeful spark of life is still inside of me, A seedling that is sprouting from the ground.

Chorus:
I want to believe, I can have joie de vivre
I want to believe it’s true.
And I want to believe, that you will never leave,
I’ll have joie de vivre with you.

Verse:
I’ve been put in a box and been poisoned with toxin from people I gave my trust.
My stomach was churned, and my house, it was burned, until nothing was left dust.
Yet a hopeful voice of peace it sings inside of me with a message I’ve no choice but to obey.

Chorus:
I want to believe, I can have joie de vivre.
And I’ll have joie de vivre with you.

Verse:
I’ve been cheated and bled, been betrayed, left for dead, been abandoned and all alone.
Stripped of my dignity, by what they did to me, but through it all I’ve been shown
That no one takes this strength I have inside of me. Resiliency that always saves the day.

Chorus:
I want to believe, I can have joie de vivre.
I want to believe it’s true.
And I want to believe, that you will never leave
And I’ll have joie de vivre with you.

Chorus:
I want to believe, I can have joie de vivre
I want to believe it’s true.
And I want to believe, that you will never leave,
And I’ll have joie de vivre with you.

Chorus:
And I want to believe, that you will never leave,
And I’ll have joie de vivre with you.