Chords for for KING & COUNTRY - Story Behind The Song: Without You (feat. Courtney)

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[D#] _ [E] Well without you is probably the most
Honest difficult song that I've ever had to write because I I got very very sick at one point and my wife
_ _ During my sickness thought that there was a chance that she could lose me and
She came to me on one particular night, [D#] and she said Luke
you just [C#m] can't leave me here and
[E] and
_ Yeah, forgive me cuz sometimes very rethink those moments is not the easiest thing so you're gonna get mutual yeah
Yeah, difficult one on this one
You know you never you never quite plan for a moment when?
_ The person that you [D#] love the most says to you
You [E] know just don't leave me, and you know you say the things that you you you can say and that is
[C#m] You know it's gonna be okay.
I'm gonna be fine
[E] But at that time in my life, I didn't know if I was gonna be okay and so
We were out in LA writing for this album and the producer that we're working with a colon Matt Hales
Has become a very very good friend of ours, and he said
[F#] He said we're gonna write one song that is very surprising [A] to people and then we're gonna write another song that'll make people cry
and
as it's doing to me and
That night we go out to dinner, and he knew I was sick, and he had knew [D#] I had gone through some stuff and _
[E] and
We were talking about faith and life, and I said hey, I just need to share with you
My story just about about all this and so I just told him all that I had been through
It was some you know the hardest days [D#] in my life
And I told him [C#m] about my wife coming to me and saying that [E] how much it
It rattled me the next day.
We're in the studio when we're writing and he says well
We have to write that song
And I said oh, I you know I know and I'm much like I am now
I can't really get that emotion out of my [F#m] head and and I [C#m] you know I tear it up
And I cried and I said man
You know what do you do [E] when you just don't get better?
And you've got all these doctors, and [C#m] you've got all these people out there.
[B] Let's say if you do this you're gonna get better
[G#m]
But you don't [A] and you've got your [E] wife, and you've got your son
[B] Who look up to you [C#m] for strength, [A] and they look up to you to [E] spur them on and
[B] In those moments those documents.
[A] I didn't have any of that and that was a difficult thing for me, so _
My wife actually sings on this song
I don't want [E] to live [F#] without [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [E] _ _ you _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Without you is [F#m] it's a mutual journey.
You know if Courtney's saying to Luke you can't leave me here [F#] and
[C#m] And and Luke kind of saying I don't want to leave you
But it [E] you know six foot four and at that point being 125 [G#] pounds and unable to find the strength to [D#] lift his own child
[E] It was uncertain
Fast forwarding to the moment where we we are now where he's not a hundred percent out of the woods, but in better shape
[G#m] And [C#m] listening to that song
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We accomplished the mission yeah
We have come [A] because the the truth is when you hear Luke's [D#] wife on the chorus and them singing it together
[E] I will be on record of saying I think to [B] date
It is the most
[G#m] Sort of [F#] gut-wrenching song that that we have we have ever written
I think we've written a lot of honest songs before but this is
this is about as
Rip [A] a page out of your journal and sing [F#] it as as music gets
So my wife on the chorus she says she sings.
I don't want to live without you
I'm not ready to live without you, and then we sing together
So let's dance a little let's laugh a little and let's hope a little more
You know I think the reason why we felt compelled to write that song is because I know that there are other people out there
[A] That have felt the same way as me, [E] and I'm fortunate in a way to have [G#m] been in a place where
[C#] _ [Am] I'm I'm somewhat beside of that, [E] but what are you for those other [G#m] people that they didn't get better?
[C#] this song to me I want them to be able [E] to grieve while they listen to that because
[D#m] You know those songs are hard to write and those songs are hard to listen to
[A] But there is hope in the fact that for me in that moment when I wrote that [C#] song I
Did know that I had now and even when I was very very weak
I would get my son, and she would sit him up next to me.
I pretty much went from my
Bedroom and to the couch just back and forth every day
And he would she would set him right in my arm
And we just had these moments where we just sit together
And he would babble on about nothing and it cheered me up
And we had these special family moments within the struggle, but the lyrics so let's dance a little let's laugh a little
Let's hope a little more [C#m] gave me
[F#] The vision and the hope for what is to come.
I know that I have today, and I don't know if I have tomorrow
but in those moments
_ I'm gonna laugh, and I'm gonna dance if I can and
If I was if this illness or whatever it is was to take me [G#m] it would take me as a very hopeful [C#m] man and
_ _ [F#] So yeah, that's that's [B] the
The difficult side of explaining a song that really is the most gut-wrenching song I've ever had to write before
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