I Hope I Never

" I Hope I Never" is a 1980 song by  New Zealand  art rock group  Split Enz from their studio album  True Colours. [1]  The album version of the song goes for 4:36, forty seconds longer than the single version. The song was later covered by  ENZSO, a collaboration between Split Enz's  Eddie Rayner and the  New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1995. The cover featured New Zealand singer  Annie Crummer on vocals, changing only the lyrics to refer to herself as a woman rather than a man. Australian singer and songwriter  Tina Arena recorded the song in 2008 with the London Studio Orchestra for her album  Songs of Love & Loss 2 and similarly changed the lyrics to reflect her gender.

==Track listings<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == ===Australian release<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> === ===International release<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Released in the US and in the Netherlands with the same track listing, but different artwork.
 * Side A
 * 1) "I Hope I Never" - 3:56 (Tim Finn)
 * Side B
 * 1) "Hypnotised" (Tim Finn)
 * 2) "Carried Away" (Neil Finn)

==Personnel<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == ==Chart position<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> ==
 * 1) "I Hope I Never" - 3:56 (Tim Finn)
 * 2) "The Choral Sea" - 4:38 (Eddie Rayner)
 * Tim Finn — vocals, piano
 * Noel Crombie — vocals, percussion
 * Eddie Rayner — vocals, keyboards
 * Malcolm Green — vocals, drums
 * Nigel Griggs — vocals, bass