Hope Is The Anthem Chords
by Switchfoot
Hope Is The Anthem by Switchfoot is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, Bm7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D A Bm7 D A Bm7
verse 1
D A Bm7
Sometimes what you need is what you fight
D A G
Like a wounded man out on the run
D A Bm7
Like shadows hiding from the light
G A D
But your love is what I was running from
A Bm7
Hope’s a seed you have to sow
D A G
When you let it go it comes to life
D A Bm7
So you stretch your arrows on the bow
G A D
And you pull them back and watch them fly
G A
My heartbeat, my oxygen
G A
My banner, my home
G A
My future, my song
G A D A Bm7 D A Bm7
Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa oh whoa
verse 2
D A Bm7
My lungs and I were born to fight
D A G
Sometimes I’m not sure what I’m fighting for
D A Bm7
But death ain’t the only end in sight
G A D
’Cause this ain’t a battle it’s a lifelong war
G A
My heartbeat, my oxygen
G A
My banner, my home
G A
My freedom, my song
G D A Bm7
Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa
D A G D A Bm7 G A
(Oh whoa) Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa
Bridge
G D
My heart is beating like a blown speaker
A Bm7
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weaker
G D
A distortion pedal and a pair of wings
A D A - Bm7 D A - Bm7
And an anthem played on broken strings
G A
My heartbeat, my oxygen
G A
My banner, my home
G A
My future, my song
G
Your hope is the anthem
G
Yeah, Your hope is the anthem of my soul
D A Bm7
(Your hope is the anthem of my soul)
D A G
(Your hope is the anthem of my soul)
D A Bm7
(Your hope is the anthem of my soul)
G A D
(Your hope is the anthem of my soul)
Outro
D
Yeah, could you make me whole
D
Yeah, could you make me whole
D
Yeah, could you make me whole