Hope-Vicetone/Barack Obama

[ti:Hope (Original Mix)] [ar:Vicetone/Barack Obama] [al:] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hope (Original Mix) - Vicetone/Barack Obama [00:31.01]Written by：Kim Wilde/M. Cummins/Ricky Wilde [01:02.03]I've never been more hopeful about our future [01:03.61] [01:05.98]I've never been more hopeful about America [01:08.32] [01:10.60]And I ask you to sustain that hope [01:12.53] [01:15.26]I'm not talking about blind optimism [01:16.56] [01:18.54]The kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead [01:21.37] [01:22.54]Or the road blocks that stand in our path [01:24.10] [01:26.59]I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us [01:29.05] [01:29.70]To just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight [01:32.32] [01:34.81]I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists [01:39.17] [01:39.72]Despite all the evidence to the contrary [01:41.34] [01:42.04]That something better awaits us [01:43.10] [01:44.00]So long we have the courage to keep reaching [01:46.13] [01:46.95]To keep working [01:47.45] [01:48.43]To keep fighting [01:48.88] [02:08.18]I believe that we can keep the promise of our founding [02:10.31] [02:11.85]The idea that if you are willing to work hard [02:13.25] [02:14.57]It doesn't matter who you are [02:15.55] [02:16.40]Or where you come from [02:17.20] [02:17.91]Or what you look like [02:18.70] [02:19.59]Or where you love [02:20.15] [02:20.96]It doesn't matter whether you are black or white [02:22.45] [02:23.07]Or Hispanic or Asian [02:23.93] [02:25.00]Or native American [02:25.72] [02:26.39]Or young or old [02:27.10] [02:28.01]Or rich or poor [02:28.74] [02:29.94]Abled disabled [02:30.67] [02:31.29]Gay or straight [02:31.87] [02:32.61]You can make it here in America [02:34.02] [03:22.19]I believe we can seize this future together [03:24.47] [03:26.24]Because we are not as divided as our politics suggests [03:28.95] [03:30.28]We're not as cynical as the pundits believe [03:32.21] [03:33.49]We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions [03:36.44] [03:37.40]And we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states [03:42.08]We are and forever will be the United States of America [03:45.46] [03:46.26]And together with your help and God's grace [03:49.18] [03:50.20]We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is [03:54.73] [03:55.39]That we live in the greatest nation on earth [03:57.83] [03:59.35]Thank you America