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