Chords for Gang of Youths Persevere at The Basement Nashville

and some sort of meaningful [F] thing
a beckoned [A] sense of such _ unspeakable love _
_ _ but as I'm staring [G] at you folks, the sweetest people I [F] knew
_ [Am] I get a glimpse of what it [G] is [F] to be strong _ _
just holding [A] hands and sobbing with [G] sunglasses
[C] but _ _ _ _ nothing turned me in to _ [C] absurdity as fast
[F] as a [C] gravestone with the name of [Am] a baby that [G] has passed
I [F] used to want to [C] be important
now [Am] I just want to be [G] alive
[F] and without _ fear
you _ [G] _
got to push
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down the times [C] I've ragged on [F] him _
[Am] as an opiate [A] invented by [F] the wheel
_ _ [C] and it's an argument [G] I hate
cause I'm [F] content to [C] love the faint
it [Am] comes up a lot
[G] with Emmys, Dad [F] and me _ _ _
[Am] so I'm shotgun [G] in the car
and we're [C] just shooting [F] the shit
[Am] and predictably the [G] talking turns to [F] God
_ _ [C] _ [Am] so I throw him 40 [G] lines
how [C] I don't think he [F] hears it
but he [Am] just smiles and says
[C] I think I'm a fire [F] pause
he says it's [A] okay, you feel [G] unbelievably [C] lost _ _ _ _
_ [F] God is full of grace
[F] his faithfulness is [C] vast
[F] there's safety [C] in the moment
[Am] when the shit is [G] in the fence
some [C]
vindictive motherfucker
knows he's shitty at [G] his job but [C] works there
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and I'm a mess by [F] now
[C] a _
_ [F] failure [C] as fat
I'm screaming for a friend with more [Am] belief than I [G] possess
it's not [F] some _ [C] disembodied heaven
you [A] saw me and I [G] need less
I'm so stunted _
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you got to _ [C] _ persevere
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persevere
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[F] _ _ _ persevere
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persevere
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_ _ _ [Am] _ oh [G] my, _ [F] oh my
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_ we throw [F] a party
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_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ and [F] I love hard cause I [C] am skinny
[Am] that don't [G] mean anything
so [F] now I'm praying to the [C] ceiling
to [Am] the window, [G] to the wall
[F] against the seven sinkings
_ there's [Am] nothing [G] there at all
so [F] I _ [C] _ _ [Am] persevere _
_ [G] oh [F] I _ persevere
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[Am] oh _ [G] _ I [F] _ _
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_ _ _ _ persevere
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