Cover art for Hope Has a Place by Enya

Hope Has a Place

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Hope Has a Place Lyrics

[Verse 1]
One look at love and you may see
It weaves a web over mystery
All raveled threads can rend apart
For hope has a place in the lover's heart
Hope has a place in a lover's heart

[Verse 2]
Whispering world, a sigh of sighs
The ebb and the flow of the ocean tides
One breath, one word may end or may start
A hope in a place of the lover's heart
Hope has a place in a lover's heart

[Chorus]
Look to love, you may dream
And if it should leave then give it wings
But if such a love is meant to be
Hope is home and the heart is free

[Verse 3]
Under the heavens we journey far
On roads of life we're the wanderers
So let love rise, so let love depart
Let hope have a place in the lover's heart
Hope has a place in a lover's heart
[Chorus]
Look to love and you may dream
And if it should leave then give it wings
But if such a love is meant to be
Hope is home and the heart is free

[Outro]
Hope is home, and the heart is free

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7th track off her 1995 album The Memory of Trees.

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What did Enya say about "Hope Has a Place"?
Genius Answer

Lyricist Roma Ryan wrote in the album’s promotional box:

Hope has a place in the lover’s heart.
If love was always kind there would be no need to worry for those who begin this journey. On Love or the loss of it, no amount of advice or reason can ultimately protect the one who loves from pain or from the disappointment of loss. We hurt so much because we love so much.
This is a wish that love may be kind, and if it should not be, that the one precious feeling held captive in Pandora’s box may find it’s place in the lover’s heart.

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Recorded At
Aigle Studios, Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland; Silent Valley Reservoir, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland
Release Date
November 20, 1995
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