Josh Ritter - Hopeful

^CSupposedly it was a wise wise man ^Emwho said it’s better to have loved and lost ^DmThan never to have loved at all,^G never to have loved. ^CHow many times does the truth that you take to be true ^EmIs just truth falling apart at the same speed as you U^Dmntil it all comes away in a million degrees ^GAnd you’re just a few pieces of fallin’ debris

^CAnd she’s hopeful. H^Amopeful. For me. ^{Dm G7}I’m coming out of the dark clouds

^CShe went away and she packed all her lovin’ ^EmI could not believe it how little there was ^DmI stood in the cold kitchen with nothin’ to say ^GWho’d keep the whole world spinning when she went away yeah?

^CShe kept telling me about the good things I deserve ^EmThat I wanted somebody I’d mistaken for her ^DmBut one look in my eyes and she’d know she was wrong ^GSo she wouldn’t look back at me until she was gone

^CHow many times did you give all your love ^EmAnd find out it was so far from far from enough? ^DmI followed her out into the street in the rain ^GAnd the whole world stopped spinning and just went up in flames

And she’s ^Chopeful. H^Amopeful. For me. ^{G7 G}I’m coming out of the dark clouds She’s ^Chopeful.^Am Hopeful, for m^G7e. ^GShe says it to me often

^CThe sunlight corroded and the days started to fail ^EmThe rocks in the road sharpened shadows to nails ^DmThe fencepost were empty and so were the trees ^GHad the bluebird of use on its’ last tune for me

^CI’ve seen her around now with someone new I don’t know ^EmShe likes greed-eyed boys who are haloed in hope ^DmBut I know the look in his eyes and I know all the old signs ^GJust a couple more curves before his own road unwinds

^CThese days I’m feelin’ better about the man that I am ^EmThere’s some things I can change and there’s others I can’t ^DmI met someone new now I know I deserve ^GI never met someone who loves the world more than her

^CShe has been through her own share of hard times as well ^EmAnd she has learned how to tear out the heaven from hell ^DmMost nights I’m alright still all rocks roll down hill ^GBut she says I’ll get better, she knows that I will

And she’s ^Chopeful. H^Amopeful, for me ^{G7 G}I’m coming out of the dark clouds She’s ^Chopeful.^Am Hopeful, for me^{G7 G}Comin’ out of the dark clouds, Comin out of the dark clouds

^CThe word is as the world is ^EmEverybody’s gonna hurt like hell^Dms some tim^Ges ^{G7 C}The word is as the world is ^EmEverybody’s gonna hurt like hell^Dms some times som^Ge times