E                          B
If there's one thing that I know
 E                      A
It is that there's two shades of hope
E                       B
One the enlightening soul
E                               A
And the other is more like a hangman's rope
A                                       B
Well it's true, you may reap what you sow
             Dbm                        B
But not that despair is the all-time low
      E                 B  E  A  E  B
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows

[Verse 2]
E                          B
There's once someone I loved
 E                      A
Whose heart overflowed his cup
E                          B
And his shoes got covered in blood
 E                      A
Oh but he never knew Cause he only looked up
A     B
Well he was a troubled soul
Dbm   B
Who'd known pain more than most I know
  E                     B  E  A  E  B
Yet it was hope that dealt the hardest blows

[Verse 3]
E                          B
And the girl that holds the hand of
 E                      A
Of a somewhat distant man
E                          B
Though she did everything she can
 E                      A
Still his heart set sail for a distant land
A                       B
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
Dbm                             B
How she feels like a trampled rose
  E                     B  E  A  E  B
Baby, hope deals the hardest blows

[Bridge 1]
E               B
Aaah oooh baby
E  A  E  B  E
Oooh, oh oh

[Verse 4]
E                          B
Well some people think their sin
 E                      A
Caused the cancer that's eating into them
E                          B
And the only way they can win
 E                      A
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin and praying
A     B         Dbm             B
But when the cancer does not go
  E                     B  E  A  E  B
Baby hope dealt the hardest blows

[Verse 5]
E                          B
And now all these truths are sold
 E                      A
With foundations below them
E                          B
That were dug out in winter's cold
 E                      A
When the world stole our young and prayed on the old
A     B         Dbm             B
Well hope deals in the hardest blows
  E                     B  E  A  E  B
Yet I cannot help myself but hope

[Bridge 2]
A                       B
I guess that's why love hurts
Dbm             B
And heartache stings
A                       B
And despair's never worse
Dbm                     B
Than the despair that earth brings

[Bridge 3]
E               B               E
But hope deals the hardest blows,
E               B               E
Yet I cannot help myself but hope.