HOPE Chords by Nf

[Ebm] Oh, [Eb] _ _ [Bb] yeah, I'm on my way, I'm coming
[Ebm] _ Don't, [Bb] don't lose faith in me
[Ebm] I know you've been waiting
I [Bb] know you've been praying for [Eb] my soul
Oh, _ _ [Bb] oh
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Eb] Thirty years you've [Bb] been dragging [Eb] your feet
Telling me I'm the reason [Ebm] we're stagnant
Thirty [Ab] years you've [Bb] been claiming [Eb] you're honest
And promising progress, [Ebm] well, where is it at?
[Eb] I don't want you [Bb] to feel like a failure
[Eb] I [D] know [Ebm] this hurts
[Eb] But I gave you [Bb] your chance to deliver
[D] [G] Now it's [Ebm] my turn
Don't get [Bb] me wrong
[G] Nature [Ebm] has its great rights
_ [Gb] But it's time to
[G] Give the people [Ebm] something to write
So without [Bb] further ado, [Eb] I'd like to [Ebm] introduce my
My album, my [Bb] album, my album, my album, my album, my [Eb] album, my album
[Ebm] Hope
What's my definition [Bb] of success?
Listening to [Ebm] what your heart says
Standing up [Bb] for what you know is
What will everybody else say?
Sticking that toe [Eb] between your legs
What's [Ebm] my definition [Bb] of success?
Creating something [Ebm] no one else can
Being brave [Bb] enough to dream big
Hurting when you're told to just quit
Ain't more [Ebm] when you got nothing left
Let her take a chance on
Something that we're told [Bb] can never happen
It's a person that can see the bright side
Through the dark [Ebm] times when there ain't one
It's when someone who ain't never had nothing
Ain't afraid to [Bb] walk away from more pain
Because they'd rather do something that they really love
And [Ebm] take the pain cut
It's a person that would never waver or change who [Bb] they are
Just to try and gain some credibility
So they can feel accepted [Ebm] by a stranger
It's a person that can take the fears in their life
And turn them into [Bb] motivation
It's believing in yourself when no one else does
[Gm] It's amazing what a little bit of faith can do
If you don't even [Bb] believe in you
Why would you think or expect anybody else that's [Ebm] around you to?
I done did things that I regret
[Bb] I done said things I can't take back
[Dm] Was a lost soul [Em] at a crossroad who had no hope
[Eb] But I changed that
I spent years of [Gm] my life holding on to [Eb] things I never should have [Bb] kept
Full of hatred
Years of my life carrying a lot of baggage that I [Eb] should have walked away from
Years of [B] my life wishing I was someone different
Looking [Bb] for some validation
Years of my life trying to feel a void but then I [Ebm] was in them
They get it
Pain's [Bb] a necessary evil
Difficult to go through
Yet quite beneficial
Some would say healing a mental breakdown is a negative thing
Which [Ebm] I'm one that I agree
But on the other hand
It [B] was the pressure I needed to get help and start to [Bb] heal it
Plus to see if I'd have never hit my bottom
Would I be the person that I am [Ebm] today?
I don't believe so
I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept [Bb] defeat And pressure
Then it took me 20 years to realize that if you wanna get that [Ebm] opportunity to be the greatest
You gotta love yourself
Sometimes you gotta be someone you're not
To [Bb] hear the voice of reason
Having people make you really
Can't you step back and look in the mirror [Ebm] at least for me?
That's what it did to me
I wake up everyday and pick my son up
Hold him in my arms and [Bb] let him know he's loved
Now I'm standing by the window questioning if that is ever going to show up
[Ebm] Isn't something he's gonna have to worry about
Don't get it twisted
That [Bb] wasn't a shot
Mama I forgive you
I just don't want him to grow up thinking that he'll never [Ebm] be enough
30 years of running
30 years of searching
30 years of hurting
30 [Bb] years of pain
30 years of fearful
30 years of anger
30 years of empty
30 [Ebm] years of shame
30 years of broken
30 years of angry
30 years of hopeless
30 [Bb] years of hang
30 years of never
30 years of maybe
30 years of later
30 [Ebm] years of pain
30 years of hollow
30 years of sorrow
30 years of darkness
30 [Bb] years of naive
30 years of bad
30 years of sadness
30 years of dying
30 [Ebm] years of change
30 years of pain
30 years of suffer
30 [Ebm] years of torment
30 [Bb] years of pain
30 years of bitter
30 years of loneliness, 30 years of pushing [Ebm] everyone away
You'll never evolve, I know I can change
We are not enough, we are [Bb] not the same
You don't have to hurt, you don't have to sway
You don't have to will, you don't [Ebm] have to fade
You'll never be loved, you'll never be saved
But it's what you're about, not [Bb] running away
You don't have to cut each other on a frame
I'm the one to talk, I'm picking up, oh
And you know
RANGE
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