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