Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.