SWITCHFOOT - HOPE IS THE ANTHEM Capo 2nd Fret Sometimes what you need is what you fight Like a wounded man out on the run Like shadows hiding from the light But your love is what I was running from Hope's a seed you have to sow When you let it go it comes to life So you stretch your arrows on the bow And you pull them back and watch them fly My heartbeat, my oxygen My banner, my home My future, my song Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa oh whoa My lungs and I were born to fight Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm fighting for But death ain't the only end in sight 'Cause this ain't a battle it's a lifelong war My heartbeat, my oxygen My banner, my home My freedom, my song Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa (Oh whoa) Your hope is the anthem of my soul, oh whoa My heart is beating like a blown speaker The spirit is willing but the flesh is weaker A distortion pedal and a pair of wings And an anthem played on broken strings My heartbeat, my oxygen My banner, my home My future, my song Your hope is the anthem Yeah, Your hope is the anthem of my soul (Your hope is the anthem of my soul) (Your hope is the anthem of my soul) (Your hope is the anthem of my soul) (Your hope is the anthem of my soul) Yeah, could you make me whole Yeah, could you make me whole Yeah, could you make me whole