The most difficult thing I’ve struggled with is the separating of lust from love. “Where does real love begin?” is the opening line and my life long question.
I had been married for a few years and now had a new baby son. I was experiencing the early success of my solo career after leaving the Sweet Comfort Band.
I had just purchased a brand new high gloss upright grand piano. In just four years I’d gone from living in a garage apartment making a hundred dollars a week, and selling my own blood plasma for gas money, to a owning a three bedroom one bath home!
Interesting, “hope of the broken hearted” was one of the first songs I wrote at this keyboard. A song of acknowledgement that sadness and longing were not removed upon acquiring new “things”.
Success brought opportunities to indulge myself in ways I’d never even considered before. Just a few years earlier I was celebrating Christmas with a neighbor in the driveway between our rentals. It was fast food burritos from a taco shop down the street and we were sitting in the driveway laughin about the absurdity. Responsibilities of personal discipline became more acute with freedom and access.
Everything I associated with “love” at this point lacked a sacrificial quality. I was loving according to what made me feel good about the effort!
Hope Of The Brokenhearted
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Lyrics
Hope Of The Brokenhearted
Where does real love begin?
Can it really last forever?
Keep searchin’ through this fire within,
Seeking without any answers.
All the simple lines I`ve heard before
Doesn’t make it any easier to find.
And I learned about love on the street
From the blind misusers
And they told me that love is a game made of broken rules.
But I know there`s a love that’s complete,
Where there`s nothing missing inside:
The Hope of the Brokenhearted,
Longing for love again.
What is all that love requires?
Will it finally bring contentment?
Or a sacrifice of my desires,
To love as just a humble servant?
Every kind of love I`ve fallen for
Leaves my crying out for something more in the end.
And I learned about love on the street
From the cruel and heartless,
Where love is a game of deceit played by selfish fools, yeah.
But I know there’s a love that’s complete
Where there’s nothing ugly to hide:
The Hope of the Brokenhearted,
Longing for love again.
The Hope of the Brokenhearted,
Longing for love again.
Here`s where real love begins:
Jesus gave His life for sinners.
In the first of ten commands
Demonstrate love to beginners.
He gave His love like no one else before,
And I owe everything I am and more to Him.
©1986 Lexicon Music, Inc (Division of Light Records)
My absolute ALL time favorite BD song. My favorite performance was live with only keyboard in Lakeland Florida. It was amazing!!
I met this song when I was 24. I had a rough childhood and it helped me grieve when I needed to. Now it helps me heal and grow. This song is classic and timeless. Thank you Bryan for writing this.
this is a song that speaks to everybody,, when we have learned that love and lust are not the same,, when were young we think we will have it all, but a yearning for that relationship that only Jesus christ can fill, well that is the truest love of all,, Bryon , you rock!!! I have all yopur music and have been sharing you for 26 years,, your music touches people because it is real and heartfelt,, my best writing has always been when I learned to be honest with god and myself,, which always means selflessness,, God bless you , love from Eugene oregon,, tessa