HOPE (The Long, Hard Night)

KEY: B Flat

INTRO  / VERSES

(Bb – Cm – Dm) | Eb – F |Gm (Gm -F) | Eb – F | Bb

PRE-CHORUS

Eb  | Eb | Bb | F(major 6)-F: ||

CHORUS

Eb | Eb | Gm | Gm | Fsus4 – F | Fsus2 – F | Cm (!!!!) | Cm – Dm | Eb
BRISGE
Gm | D(Major!) | Eb | Bb (D inversion) :||
Build out on Eb!

Strange guitar over sustained D in Bass, until build on C


LYRICS

VERSE 1
As soon as the rainfall stops
And we pull her out of the yard
That’s when we turn on all of her lights
Beginning a long, hard night

There is a picture on the glass
Of the namesake on the bow
And it keeps me feeling alright
All through the long, hard night

PRE-CHORUS 1
When I turn away
I can hear them say
“All this – has been done before
And no one lives
And no one gives reasons for the war”

CHORUS
So ever y night I cry and then
I close my eyes and I pretend
Up there above  the clouds gracefully I ascend
Holding the stars there in my arms again

VERSE 2
There is a devil under the sea
The enemy fights without remorse
Both are beyond and well out of sight
On the edge of the long, hard night

PRE-CHORUS 2
There are times
There are rhymes
No one should ever know
Where I confess that I’ve been blessed
Simply to have known you

CHORUS (repeat)

BRIDGE (Instrumental)


PRE-CHORUS 3
I never planned to discover land
Out here where nobody goes
Who’d believe that the deep blue sea
Harbored an island of hope

CHORUS (Repeat…then)
It fills my heart with delight
As the horizon before me ignights
Filling the world with radiant light
And ending the long, hard night