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