Verse
E B
If there's one thing that I know
E A
It is that there's two shades of hope
E B
One the enlightening soul
E A
And the other is more like a hangman's rope
A B
Well it's true, you may reap what you sow
Dbm B
But not that despair is the all-time low
E B E A E B
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows
[Verse 2]
E B
There's once someone I loved
E A
Whose heart overflowed his cup
E B
And his shoes got covered in blood
E A
Oh but he never knew Cause he only looked up
A B
Well he was a troubled soul
Dbm B
Who'd known pain more than most I know
E B E A E B
Yet it was hope that dealt the hardest blows
[Verse 3]
E B
And the girl that holds the hand of
E A
Of a somewhat distant man
E B
Though she did everything she can
E A
Still his heart set sail for a distant land
A B
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
Dbm B
How she feels like a trampled rose
E B E A E B
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows
[Bridge 1]
E B
Aaah oooh baby
E A E B E
Oooh, oh oh
[Verse 4]
E B
Well some people think their sin
E A
Caused the cancer that's eating into them
E B
And the only way they can win
E A
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin and praying
A B Dbm B
But when the cancer does not go
E B E A E B
Baby hope dealt the hardest blows
[Verse 5]
E B
And now all these truths are sold
E A
With foundations below them
E B
That were dug out in winter's cold
E A
When the world stole our young and prayed on the old
A B Dbm B
Well hope deals in the hardest blows
E B E A E B
Yet I cannot help myself but hope
[Bridge 2]
A B
I guess that's why love hurts
Dbm B
And heartache stings
A B
And despair's never worse
Dbm B
Than the despair that earth brings
[Bridge 3]
E B E
But hope deals the hardest blows,
E B E
Yet I cannot help myself but hope.