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