Two Shades Of Hope

If there's one thing that I know

It is the two shades of hope

One, the enlightening soul

And the other is more like a hangman's rope

Well it's true you may reap what you sow

But not that despair is the all time low

Baby, hope deals the hardest blows

There was once someone I loved

Whose heart overflowed his cup

And his shoes got covered in blood

Oh but he never knew 'cause he only looked up

Well he was in trouble and so

He'd known pain more than most I know

Yet it was hope that dealt the hardest blows

And the girl that holds the hand

Of her somewhat distant man

Though she did everything she can

Still his heart set sail for distant lands

And she wonders sometimes if he knows

How she feels like a trampled rose

Baby, hope deals the hardest blows

Well some people think their sin

Caused the cancer that's eating into them

And the only way that they can win

Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin and praying

But when the cancer does not go

Baby, hope dealt the hardest blows

And now all these truths are so

With foundations below them

They were dug out in a winter's cold

When the world stole our young and preyed on the old, well

Hope deals in the hardest blows

Yet I cannot help myself but hope

I guess that's why love hurts

And heartache stings

And despair is never worse

Than despair that death brings

But hope deals the hardest blows, dear

The hardest

Hope deals the hardest blows