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Dave's acoustic version here is intense and awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhI8IMQtup8
The chords sound best if you get the hammer-on's going on the C, Am and F chords in the verse
(Hammer-on/pull-off on the middle note in each chord)
[Verse 1]CGG7AmF
I never got to kiss your head, ah, Emme
CGF
And the call came the week I got divorced
CGAmF
I thought I had a real understanding then of loss
CGF
But I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone
CGAmF
And I'm tired of trying to find some sort of meaningful thing
CGF
In making sense of such unspeakable loss
CGAmF
But as I'm staring at your folks, the sweetest people I know
CGF
I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong
CGF
Just holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on
[Chorus]FCFC
'Cause nothing tuned me in to absurdity as fast
FCAmG
As a gravestone with the name of a baby that has passed
FCAmG
I used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive
FG
And without fear
You got to persevere
[Instrumental]CGG7AmFCGF
(x2)
[Verse 2]CGG7AmF
I couldn't count the times I've ragged on heaven
CGF
As an opiate invented by the weak
CGFC
It's an argument I hate 'cause I'm content to love the fates
CGF
But it comes up a lot with Emme's dad and me
CGAmF
So I'm shotgun in the car and we're just shooting the shit
CGF
And predictably, the talking turns to God
CGAmF
So I throw him forty lines how I don't think he exists
CGF
And he just smiles and takes a dignified pause
CGF
Says, "It's okay to feel unbelievably lost"
[Chorus]FCFC
But God is full of grace and his faithfulness is vast
FCAmG
There is safety in the moments when the shit has hit the fan
FCAmG
Not some vindictive motherfucker, nor is he shitty at his job
FG
What words to hear
And I'm a mess by now
FCFC
'Cause nothing tuned me in to my failure as fast
FCAmG
As grieving for a friend with more belief than I possessed
FCAm
"It's not some disembodied heaven," he assured me
GFG
Then he laughs and says through tears
FCAmG
"You got to persevere"
FCAmG
Persevere
FCAmG
Persevere
FCAmG
Persevere
[Instrumental break]FCAmG
[Solo] (played over top of break and outro)
e|-3-5-------------------|B|-----5-3-5---3---------|G|-----------5---4-2-0---| x8D|-----------------------|A|-----------------------|E|-----------------------|[Outro]FCAmG
We threw a party up in here, but God, it was bittersweet
FCAmG
I live hard 'cause I am scared that I won't mean anything
FCAmG
So now I'm praying to the ceiling, to the windows, to the walls
FCAmG
Against this sudden sinking feeling that there's nothing there at all
And still we just persevere
[Outro]FCAmG
(repeat to fade)
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