Hold On Hope
Words & Music:
Robert E. Pollard (Guided
By Voices)
E F
G [2x - hold G second time]
B
C#m
E
Ebm
Every street is
dark and folding out mysteriously.
B
C#m B
Well that's the chance
we take to be.
B
C#m
E
Ebm
Always working,
reaching out for a hand that we can't see.
CHORUS:
Guitar over this part:
|E-------------------|
|B-5-4-2-0-----------|
|G---------1^3-1-3-4-|
E
F#
B G#m
Everybody's got a
hold on hope; it's the last thing that's holding me.
Invitation to the
last dance and then its time to leave.
That's the price
we pay when we deceive
One another and my
mother; she opens up for free.
CHORUS: [end on B instead of G#m]
A
Ebm
Look at the talk
box in mute frustration.
B
E F#
G A
At the station,
there hides the cowboy.
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
OVER: B C#m E Ebm E F# B
E----------------------------------------------7---6---------------------7-6-------------2-
B-2/4-2-0^2-2----2/4-2-0^2-------7---4-------7---7-----------7---------------7---7---------
G-----------------------------/8---6-4/6-6/8---------3-4-4/8---------8\6-------6---6-4-4---
D--------------------------------------------------------------9-8-9-----------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------|
B----------------------|
G----------------------|
D-/4-2\1---------------|
A-------2----------0---|
E---------2--0-2-4-----|
Look at the talk
box in mute frustration.
At the station,
there hides the cowboy.
A
G#m E F#
His campfire
flickering on the landscape.
B
C#m
E
Ebm
But nothin' grows
on; but time still goes on through each life of misery.
CHORUS: [3x]