Persevere (Explicit)-Gang of Youths

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[00:00.00]Persevere (Explicit) - Gang of Youths
[00:00.16]Written by：David Le'aupepe
[00:00.32]I never got to kiss your head
[00:03.50]Ah Emme
[00:05.14]And the call came the week I got divorced
[00:11.36]I thought I had a real understanding then of loss
[00:16.47]But I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone
[00:22.10]And I'm tired of trying to find some sort of
[00:24.87]Meaningful thing
[00:26.90]In making sense of such unspeakable loss
[00:32.54]But as I'm staring at your folks
[00:34.97]The sweetest people I know
[00:38.20]I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong
[00:43.05]Just holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on
[00:49.54]'Coz nothing tuned me in
[00:51.71]To absurdity as fast
[00:54.48]As a gravestone with the name
[00:56.50]Of a baby that has passed
[00:59.60]I used to wanna be important
[01:02.39]Now I just wanna be alive
[01:05.09]And without fear
[01:09.41]You got to persevere
[01:33.27]I couldn't count the times
[01:34.60]I've ragged on heaven
[01:38.01]As an opiate invented by the weak
[01:43.81]It's an argument I hate
[01:45.56]'Coz I'm content to love the fates
[01:49.03]But it comes up a lot with Emme's dad and me
[01:54.50]So I'm shotgun in the car
[01:56.69]And we're just shooting the sh*t
[02:00.09]And predictably the talking turns to God
[02:05.37]So I throw him forty lines
[02:07.29]How I don't think he exists
[02:10.15]And he just smiles and
[02:11.58]Takes a dignified pause
[02:15.75]Says it's ok to feel unbelievably lost
[02:22.08]But God is full of grace
[02:24.31]And his faithfulness is vast
[02:27.05]There is safety in the moments
[02:29.78]When the sh*t has hit the fan
[02:31.87]Not some vindictive motherf**ker
[02:35.33]Nor is he shitty at his job
[02:37.30]What words to hear
[02:42.01]And I'm a mess by now
[02:43.69]'Coz nothing tuned me in to my
[02:46.48]Failure as fast
[02:48.89]As grieving for a friend
[02:51.09]With more belief than I possessed
[02:53.71]It's not some disembodied heaven
[02:57.15]He assured me then he laughed
[02:59.10]And says through tears
[03:05.33]You got to persevere
[03:11.41]Persevere
[03:16.84]Persevere
[03:22.12]Persevere
[03:48.62]We threw a party up in here
[03:51.62]But God it was bittersweet
[03:54.42]I live hard 'coz I am scared
[03:57.06]That I won't mean anything
[03:59.52]So now I'm praying to the ceiling
[04:02.25]To the windows to the walls
[04:05.01]Against this sudden sinking feeling
[04:07.99]That there's nothing there at all
[04:10.13]And still
[04:12.93]We just persevere