Foy Vance Two Shades Of Hope Lyrics

[Verse]
If there's one thing that I know
It is that two shades of hope
One the enlightening soul
And the other is more like a hangman's rope

[Pre-Chorus]
Well it's true, you may reap what you sow
But not that despair is the all-time low

[Chorus]
Baby, hope deals the the ha- ardest blows

[Verse]
There was once someone I loved
And his heart overflowed his cup
And his shoes got covered in blood
Oh but he never knew
Cause he only looked up

[Pre-Chorus]
Well he was a troubled soul
And he saw pain more than most I know

[Chorus]
Yet it was hope that dealt the ha- ardest blows

[Verse]
And too the girl that holds the hand
Of a somewhat distant man
Though she'd do everything she can
Still his heart set sail for a distant land

[Pre-Chorus]
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
How she feels like a trampled rose

[Chorus]
Baby, hope deals the the ha- ardest blows

[Instrumental]
Oooh, oh oh
Oooh, oh oh

[Verse]
Well some people think their sins
Cause the cancer that's eating into them
And the only way they can win
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin

[Pre-Chorus]
And pra-a-yin, but when the cancer does not go

[Chorus]
Surely hope dealt the ha- ardest blows

[Verse]
And now all these truths are sold
With foundations below them
That were dug out in winter's cold

[Bridge]
When the world stole our young and prayed on the old

[Outro]
Well hope deals in the ha- ardest blows
Yet I cannot help myself but hope
I guess that's why love hurts
And heartache stings
And despair is never worse
Than the despair that it brings
But hope deals the ha- ardest blows, dear
The ha-ardest blows, dear
The ha-ardest blows