Chords for WGBH Music: David Wax Museum - Harder Before It Gets Easier

_ _ _ Listen up because you're going to hear something pretty great.
It's something that Bob Boylan from NPR has called
Pure _ Irresistible Joy.
So here they are, David Wax Museum. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ You've been silent so hard you can barely breathe
You've been silent so hard you can barely breathe
You've been stitching your heart on the outside of your sleeve
You've been stitching your heart on the outside of your sleeve
[Em] _ _
You've been [B] wrung out in [C] the _ [Am] doubts [G] with grief
[Em] In the ocean of [B] time, this [C]
moment [Am] will be [G] brief
Will be [D] brief
_ _ Oh, I know it's gonna [G] get harder for it gets easier
_ _ [D] Oh, I know it's gonna [G] get harder for it gets _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] easier
Knock, knock, baby, was that too soon?
Knock, knock, too loud, too soon?
[E] Knock, knock, we were [G] unprepared
Knock, knock, baby, just not _ yet
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But a [G] position of our hearts will share
A position of our [D] _ hearts will [G] share
_ Someday this burden [A] of love we will lift
This burden of love we [G] will lift
_ [Em] And the difference between wrong [B] and right
[C] Will _ [A] close like a fist
[Em] But now judgment [B] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
will be [G] swift just [D] like _ [G] this
[D] Oh, I know it's gonna [G] get harder for it gets easier
[D] _ Oh, _ _ I know it's gonna get [D] harder for it [G] gets _ _ _ _ easier
_ Knock, knock, baby, was that too soon?
[D] Knock, knock, too loud, [G] too soon?
Knock, [E] knock, we were [G] unprepared
Knock, knock, baby, just not yet _
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_ _ _ _ _ Baby's born in a mud hut
Baby's born _
[A] _ _ _ with the worm fastened to [G] his gut
[C] With the worm [D] fastened to his [G] gut
[Em] _ _ Oh, so [B] big and _ [C] heavy _ is [G] the hatchet
_ [Em] So good to [B] laugh is [C] when we all [G] _
stop [E] in a row
_ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ It's gonna get harder [E] before it gets easier
_ [D] _
Oh, I know it's gonna [G] get harder before it gets _ _ _ easier
_ _ Knock, knock, _ too [D]
loud, [G] too soon?
Knock, knock, we were unprepared
Knock, knock, baby, just not yet
Knock, knock, too _ [D] loud, too soon?
Knock, knock, we were [G] unprepared
Knock, knock, baby, just not yet _ _ _ _ _ _
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