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