Key: C major•
Verse 1
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I never got to kiss your head, ah, Emme
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And the call came the week I got divorced
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I thought I had a real understanding
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then of loss
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But I didn't know a thing 'til you
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were gone
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And I'm tired of trying to find some sort
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of meaningful thing
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In making sense of such
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unspeakable loss
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But as I'm staring at your folks,
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the sweetest people I know
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I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong
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Just holding hands and sobbing
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with sunglasses on
Verse 2
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'Cause nothing tuned me in
to absurdity as fast
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As a gravestone with the name of
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a baby that has passed
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I used to wanna be important,
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now I just wanna be alive
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G
And without fear
You got to persevere
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G
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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I couldn't coun
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t the times I've ragged on heaven
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As an opiate invented by the weak
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It's an argument I hate 'cause I'm
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content to love the fates
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But it comes up a lot with
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Emme's dad and me
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So I'm shotgun in the car and
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we're just shooting the shit
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And predictably, the talking turns to God
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So I throw him forty lines how
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I don't think he exists
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And he just smiles and takes
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F
a dignified pause
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Says, "It's okay to feel
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C
unbelievably lost"
Verse 4
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But God is full of grace and
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his faithfulness is vast
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There is safety in the moments
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when the shit has hit the fan
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Not some vindictive motherfucker,
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nor is he shitty at his job
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What words to hear
And I'm a mess by now
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'Cause nothing tuned me in to
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my failure as fast
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As grieving for a friend with more
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belief than I possessed
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"It's not some disembodied
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heaven," he assured me
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Then he laughs and says
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through tears
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"You got to persevere"
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Persevere
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Persevere
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Persevere
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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We threw a party up in here,
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but God, it was bittersweet
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I live hard 'cause I am scared
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that I won't mean anything
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So now I'm praying to the ceiling,
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to the windows, to the walls
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Against this sudden sinking feeling that
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there's nothing there at all
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And still
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We just persevere
Outro 1
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