Between the Cracks (3:00 am)
John Mark McMillan
Hope Anthology Volume 1

This is the acoustic version from his first album

Verse 1:

G (320003@1)           
Hope grows between cracks in the asphalt
       Em7
In the downtown ghetto streets that contour 
     C (x32010@1)                                GThe (320003@1)government housing intentions of my heart
     GAnd (320003@1)no one notices the daisies don't care
      Em7
About gang related violence
                           CAs (x32010@1)long as they get enough air and water and sun
                  DThey're (xx0232@1)all just fine

Chorus:

Em7                                            GWho (320003@1)would've thought it but life is finding a way
                                                 DThrough (xx0232@1)this wasteland of cynics, concrete, and pain
           Em7
There's a man down here somewhere between
    GThe (320003@1)Saturday cartoons and the dirty magazines
      DHe's (xx0232@1)raising the dead in the graveyards
      CWhere (x32010@1)we've laid down our dreams 
            GHis (320003@1)name is Hope

Verse 2:

GHope (320003@1)stands high on the fifteenth floor
      Em7
On a Christmas tree perched about the ledge of a fortress
   C (x32010@1)                                           GOf (320003@1)steel that's trying too hard to be somebody's home
                                               Em7
As it sees my attention from I-85 though the throws of the day

Were still writhing inside
  CI (x32010@1)lifted my head as I drove home that night and knew
DEverything (xx0232@1)was gonna be fine

Chorus:

Em7                                            GWho (320003@1)would've thought it but life is finding a way
                                                 DThrough (xx0232@1)this wasteland of cynics, concrete, and pain
           Em7
There's a man down here not worried or afraid 
           GThat (320003@1)some politician forgot all the promises he made
          DAnd (xx0232@1)he's raising the dead in the graveyards
      CWhere (x32010@1)we've laid down our dreams 
             GHis (320003@1)name is Hope

Verse 3:

GCan (320003@1)you hear him outside he's been singing all night
            Em7
He's saying when you gonna come out from behind
      C (x32010@1)                                    DThese (xx0232@1)paper thin walls, your cardboard box realities

Chorus:

Em7                                            GWho (320003@1)would've thought it but life is finding a way
                                                 DThrough (xx0232@1)this wasteland of cynics, concrete, and pain
           Em7
There's a man down here not worried or afraid 
           GThat (320003@1)some politician forgot all the promises he made
          DAnd (xx0232@1)he's raising the dreams in the graveyards
      CWhere (x32010@1)we've laid down our DEAD 
             GHis (320003@1)name is Hope

CHORDS:

G (320003@1)    Em7      C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)3      3        3      2     
3      3        3      3
0      0        0      2
0      2        2      0
2      2        3      x
3      0        x      x