If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

The line suggests a faith in language as a practical and moral instrument: if you can name experience—find the right words for it—you retain agency and the possibility of direction. “Words” here imply more than vocabulary; they stand for articulation, imagination, and the capacity to shape meaning out of confusion or hardship. The “chance” is modest but real: expression does not guarantee resolution, yet it opens routes—toward understanding, toward others, toward action. Read in a Heaney-like key, it also hints at poetry’s role in difficult times: speech and writing become ways of keeping hope, clarity, and ethical orientation when circumstances feel obstructed.