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                           HOPEFUL - Bars and Melody
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Capo 3/4
Standard Tuning

* = Strum Once

Riff/Intro:

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D|--2----0----
A|-3----2----0
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-2-2-2---5----
2---2---5----9
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Capo 3

[Verse 1]
             
Please help me

        
 God, I feel s

o alone
    
I'm just a kid

, I can't take

 it on my own
             
I've cried so 

              
many tears, ye

    
ah, writing th

is song

Trying to fit 

in. Where do I

 belong?
             
I wake up ever

             
y day, don't w

anna leave my 

home
   
My mamma's ask

in' me why I'm

 always alone
            
Too scared to 

         
say, too scare

d to holler

I'm walking to

 school with s

weat around my

 collar
             
I'm just a kid

    
, I don't want

 no stress
   
My nerves are 

bad, my life's

 a mess
             
The names you 

              
call me, they 


hurt real bad
  
I want to tell

 my Mom

She's havin' trouble with my Dad
             
  I feel so tr

              
apped, there's

 
 nowhere to tu

rn

Come to school

Don't wanna fight I wanna learn
 
So please mist

er Bully
     
Tell me what I

've done
    
You know I hav

e no Dad

I'm livin' with my Mom


[Chorus]
             
'Cause I'm hop

      
eful, yes, I a

m

Hopeful for to

day
             
Take this musi

      
c and use it
       
Let it take yo

u away
             
And be hopeful

  
, hopeful
    
And He'll make

 a way
            
I know it ain'

         
t easy but tha

t's okay
        
Just be hopefu

l


[Verse 2]
              
Why do you tri

         
p at the colou

r of my skin
    
And whether I'

m fat or wheth

er I'm thin
             
You call me lo

         
ser, you call 

me a fool
  
I ain't got a 

choice, I gott

a go to school
             
I wish I had a

           
n angel to sta

nd by my side
    
I'm shaking wi

th fear, I'm s

o scared insid

e
            
Doesn't really

             
 matter if I a


in't got the l

ooks
           
Why do you alw

ays hurt me an

d destroy my b

ooks?


[Chorus]
             
'Cause I'm hop

      
eful, yes, I a

m

Hopeful for to

day
             
Take this musi

      
c and use it
       
Let it take yo

u away
             
And be hopeful

  
, hopeful
    
And He'll make

 a way
            
I know it ain'

         
t easy but tha

t's okay
        
Just be hopefu

l


[Verse]
              
I give you all

          
 my money ever

y single day
         
I didn't ask t

o be born but 

now I have to 

pay
            
I ain't got no

           
 food, you tak

e all I have

When I give it

 to you, you s

earch through 

my bags
             
I wrote this s

        
ong for you to

 see
   
We could've be

en friends, ye

ah you and me
            
Mister bully, 

     
take a moment 

please
      
Every single d

ay you bring m

e to my knees


Capo 4

[Chorus]
             
'Cause I'm hop

      
eful, yes, I a

m

Hopeful for to

day
             
Take this musi

      
c and use it
       
Let it take yo

u away
             
And be hopeful

  
, hopeful
    
And He'll make

 a way
            
I know it ain'

         
t easy but tha

t's okay

             
'Cause I'm hop

      
eful, yes I am

,

Hopeful for to

day (Hopeful f

or today)
             
Take this musi

      
c and use it (

Bars and Melod

y!)
       
Let it take yo

u away (Take y

ou away)
             
And be hopeful

  
, hopeful (Yea

h)
    
And he'll make

 a way
            
I know it ain'

         
t easy but tha

t's okay
        
Just be hopefu

l


[Outro]
              
What I wear is

 
 all I have
   
We lost our ho

me, I'm livin'

 from a bag
            
Yo mister bull

   
y, help me ple

ase
    
I'm flesh and 

blood, accept 

me please