I Can Do Hard Things Chords by Jennifer Nettles

_ Every day it's hard proving that I can.
I can help people.
I can try.
I can save lives.
It's not [Em] the word bitch anymore.
It's so pushy, so bossy.
[D] I just say I'm not bossy, I'm just the boss.
The hardest [A] thing about anticipating a deployment is just knowing all the things that he's going
to miss and that we're going to miss together as a family.
No parent ever really _ plans that their [E] kids will have to take care of them.
_ _ _ But I [Bm] think she's really, really proud of [Bm] me for not only helping to take care of her,
but [A] also for finishing my education and pursuing my [D] dream.
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_ _ _ [D] _ I can't [A] rise above it.
_ _ _ Sometimes it's the vast unknown as far as [E] I can see.
[E] _ _ _ Sometimes [Bm] it feels like I'm touching everything [D] and everything is [A] touching me.
_ _ _ I've lost people in my name to become the woman I [E] am today.
_ _ I'll still be [Bm]
becoming tomorrow, [D] maybe losing but still choosing [A] her anyway.
_ _ _ _ Oh, it's [Bm] a lot.
_ [D] Look at all that I got.
It's [Bm] a lot to see [D] who I am and am not.
But [A] I can laugh and I [E] can love and I [Bm] can dream.
I can [D] do _ hard [A] things.
_ [A] When you realize the people who should help you when you come forward and say,
Me too, aren't going to.
_ _ You're forced to look inside yourself [E] and find well the resolve you had no idea you had.
[Bm] I turned to writing to write [D] my own place in this story, [A] in this American story,
in this Southern story because I hadn't [Bm] heard it, I hadn't seen it in a way that I needed it
[D] as a black woman in the South.
Adopting a [Bm] baby and being on the path to [D] single parenthood has felt scary [A] and full of unknowns.
[E] All I know is that [Bm] I am all in and facing it head on.
As a [D] transgender woman, I'm proud to be who I am, to own who I am, and show the world who I [A] am.
I look at my baby. _ _ _
I wouldn't trade him [E] for the [E] world. _
_ And I've [Bm] gained joy [D] like I've never known, but lost the lightness [A] when I was a girl. _ _
_ We're told to say that it's better, and it is, and it isn't, [E] and now I know. _ _
But there's little [Bm] black or white, there's [D] little wrong or right, and mostly [A] it's both. _ _
_ No, [Bm] it's a lie.
_ [D] Look at all that I got.
[Bm] It's a lie to see [D] who I am and I'm not.
But [A] I can laugh and [E] I can love and I [Bm] can dream.
I can [A] do hard _ _ _ _ things. _ _ _ _ _
_ Sometimes I can hold it [A] all. _
I know where I end [E] and where I start.
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_ Sometimes [Bm] it's all way too heavy, [D] and I'm way more than the sum of [A] all my parts. _ _
_ No, [Bm] it's a lie.
_ [D] Look at all that I got.
[Bm] It's a lie to see [D] who I am and I'm not.
But [A] I can laugh and I can love [Bm] and I can dream.
_ [A] I can win or [E] I can lose, [Bm] it's all the same.
_ [A] I still dance [E] and I sing [Bm] in the pain.
I can [D] do _ _ _ _ _ hard [A] things. _ _ _
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