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