great white hope

• styx grubunun 1978 yılında çıkarttığı albümü pieces of eightdeki açılış parçasının adı...
  
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  when i ws a young man, i had to kick and scratch and claw
  now it's like top gun in the old west, everybody wants me to draw
  if i had known it would be likethis i might have given it a second thought
  but if someone had told me to give it up, it's a line that i wouldn't have
  bought
  
  chorus
  look at me
  i'm the great white hope
  can't you see
  i'm up against the ropes
  don't you know
  it's so hard to cope
  when you feel
  like the great white hope
  
  now you've paid your money you're sitting in your ringside seat
  and i know that some of you out there, might wanna see the champ get beat
  if i had known it would be like this i might have given it a second
  thought
  but real life sure isn't like school, there's some lessons that just
  can't be taught
  
  chorus