Josh Ritter - Hopeful

^FSupposedly it was a wise wise man ^Dmwho said it’s better to have loved and lost ^GmThan never to have loved at all,^C never to have loved. ^FHow many times does the truth that you take to be true ^DmIs just truth falling apart at the same speed as you U^Gmntil it all comes away in a million degrees ^CAnd you’re just a few pieces of fallin’ debris

^FAnd she’s hopeful. H^Dmopeful. For me. ^{Gm C7}I’m coming out of the dark clouds

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

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

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

And she’s ^Fhopeful. H^Dmopeful. For me. ^{C7 C}I’m coming out of the dark clouds She’s ^Fhopeful.^Dm Hopeful, for m^C7e. ^CShe says it to me often

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

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

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

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

And she’s ^Fhopeful. H^Dmopeful, for me ^{C7 C}I’m coming out of the dark clouds She’s ^Fhopeful.^Dm Hopeful, for me^{C7 C}Comin’ out of the dark clouds, Comin out of the dark clouds

^FThe word is as the world is ^DmEverybody’s gonna hurt like hell^Gms some tim^Ces ^{C7 F}The word is as the world is ^DmEverybody’s gonna hurt like hell^Gms some times som^Ce times