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