Josh Ritter – Hopeful (Ukulele)

F
Supposedly it was a wise wise man 

Dm
who said it's better to have loved and lost 

Gm                              C
Than never to have loved at all, never to have loved. 

F
How many times does the truth that you take to be true 

Dm
Is just truth falling apart at the same speed as you

 Gm
Until it all comes away in a million degrees 

C
And you're just a few pieces of fallin' debris

F                     Dm                    Gm
And she's hopeful. Hopeful. For me.

C7
I'm coming out of the dark clouds

F
She went away and she packed all her lovin'

Dm
I could not believe it how little there was  

Gm
I stood in the cold kitchen with nothin' to say 

C
Who'd keep the whole world spinning when she went away yeah?

F
She kept telling me about the good things I deserve 

Dm
That I wanted somebody I'd mistaken for her

Gm
But one look in my eyes and she'd know she was wrong 

C
So she wouldn't look back at me until she was gone 

F
How many times did you give all your love 

Dm
And find out it was so far from far from enough? 

Gm
I followed her out into the street in the rain 

C
And the whole world stopped spinning and just went up in flames 

            F         Dm                   C7
And she's hopeful. Hopeful. For me. 

C
I'm coming out of the dark clouds

        F       Dm             C7       
She's hopeful. Hopeful, for me.

C
She says it to me often

F
The sunlight corroded and the days started to fail 

Dm
The rocks in the road sharpened shadows to nails 

Gm
The fencepost were empty and so were the trees 

C
Had the bluebird of use on its' last tune for me 

F
I've seen her around now with someone new I don't know 

Dm
She likes greed-eyed boys who are haloed in hope 

Gm
But I know the look in his eyes and I know all the old signs 

C
Just a couple more curves before his own road unwinds 

F
These days I'm feelin' better about the man that I am

Dm
There's some things I can change and there's others I can't 

Gm
I met someone new now I know I deserve 

C
I never met someone who loves the world more than her 

F
She has been through her own share of hard times as well

Dm
And she has learned how to tear out the heaven from hell 

Gm
Most nights I'm alright still all rocks roll down hill

C
But she says I'll get better, she knows that I will 

            F         Dm                C7
And she's hopeful. Hopeful, for me

C
I'm coming out of the dark clouds

        F       Dm              C7      
She's hopeful. Hopeful, for me

C
Comin' out of the dark clouds, Comin out of the dark clouds 

F
The word is as the world is

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Everybody's gonna hurt like hells some times 

F
The word is as the world is

Dm                                Gm              C     
Everybody's gonna hurt like hells some times some times