Gang Of Youths – Persevere chords

[Verse 1]
  C             G    G7  Am         FI never got to kiss your head, ah, Emme
        C             G            FAnd the call came the week I got divorced
  C               G         Am               FI thought I had a real understanding then of loss
      C             G                   FBut I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone
        C                  G                 Am         FAnd I'm tired of trying to find some sort of meaningful thing
          C             G           FIn making sense of such unspeakable loss
           C               G                   Am       FBut as I'm staring at your folks, the sweetest people I know
        C                  G        FI get a glimpse of what it is to be strong
             C               G                 FJust holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on


[Chorus]
F                       C       F          C'Cause nothing tuned me in to absurdity as fast
     F                   C         Am            GAs a gravestone with the name of a baby that has passed
          F        C                     Am       GI used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive
           F       GAnd without fear

You got to persevere


[Instrumental]
C  G  G7  Am  F
C  G  F(x2)


[Verse 2]
  C                  G     G7   Am        FI couldn't count the times I've ragged on heaven
      C      G               FAs an opiate invented by the weak
        C          G               F                   CIt's an argument I hate 'cause I'm content to love the fates
       C                   G              FBut it comes up a lot with Emme's dad and me
      C               G                  Am           FSo I'm shotgun in the car and we're just shooting the shit
    C                G                FAnd predictably, the talking turns to God
     C         G                       Am       FSo I throw him forty lines how I don't think he exists
            C                  G         FAnd he just smiles and takes a dignified pause
             C           G            FSays, "It's okay to feel unbelievably lost"


[Chorus]
    F              C             F               CBut God is full of grace and his faithfulness is vast
         F             C                Am               GThere is safety in the moments when the shit has hit the fan
         F          C                    Am               GNot some vindictive motherfucker, nor is he shitty at his job
              F      GWhat words to hear

And I'm a mess by now
         F              C        F          C'Cause nothing tuned me in to my failure as fast
   F              C                Am            GAs grieving for a friend with more belief than I possessed
               F           C           Am"It's not some disembodied heaven," he assured me
        G                       F        GThen he laughs and says through tears
            F    C       Am  G"You got to persevere"
F    C      Am  GPersevere
F    C      Am  GPersevere
F    C      Am  GPersevere


[Instrumental break]
F  C  Am  G


[Solo] (played over top of break and outro)

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[Outro]
           F           C         Am                GWe threw a party up in here, but God, it was bittersweet
       F                C             Am         GI live hard 'cause I am scared that I won't mean anything
           F              C               Am              GSo now I'm praying to the ceiling, to the windows, to the walls
             F              C                    Am               GAgainst this sudden sinking feeling that there's nothing there at all

And still we just persevere


[Outro]
F  C  Am  G  (repeat to fade)