Persevere-Gang Of Youths

[00:00.000] 作词 : David Le'aupepe [00:00.150] 作曲 : David Le'aupepe [00:00.300]I never got to kiss your head,ah Emme [00:05.000]And the call came the week I got divorced [00:11.000]I thought I had a real understanding then of loss [00:16.000]But I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone [00:22.000]And I'm tired of trying [00:23.000]To find some sort of meaningful thing [00:27.000]In making sense of such unspeakable loss [00:32.000]But as I'm staring at your folks [00:34.000]The sweetest people i know [00:38.000]I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong [00:43.000]Just holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on [00:49.000]'Coz nothing tuned me in [00:51.000]With more belief than I possessed [00:52.000]To absurdity as fast [00:54.000]It's not some disembodied heaven [00:55.000]As a gravestone with [00:56.000]The name of a baby that has passed [00:58.000]He assured me [01:00.000]I used to wanna be important [01:03.000]Now I just wanna be alive and without fear [01:09.000]You got to persevere [01:33.000]I couldn't count the times I've ragged on heaven [01:38.000]As an opiate invented by the weak [01:43.000]It's an argument I hate [01:46.000]'Coz I'm content to love the fates [01:49.000]But it comes up a lot with Emme's dad and me [01:54.000]So I'm shotgun in the car [01:57.000]And we're just shooting the **** [02:00.000]And predictably the talking turns to God [02:05.000]So I throw him forty lines [02:08.000]How I don't think he exists [02:11.000]And he just smiles and takes a dignified pause [02:16.000]Says, "it's ok to feel unbelievably lost" [02:22.000]But God is full of grace [02:25.000]And his faithfulness is vast [02:27.000]There is safety in the moments [02:30.000]When the **** has hit the fan [02:32.000]Not some vindictive ************ [02:35.000]Nor is he shitty at his job [02:38.000]What words to hear [02:42.000]And I'm a mess by now [02:44.000]'Coz nothing tuned me in to my failure as fast [02:49.000]As grieving for a friend [03:00.000]Then he laughed and says through tears [03:05.000]You got to persevere [03:11.000]Persevere [03:17.000]Persevere [03:22.000]Persevere [03:49.000]We threw a party up in here [03:52.000]But god it was bittersweet [03:54.000]I live hard ‘coz I am scared [03:57.000]That I won't mean anything [04:00.000]So now I'm praying to the ceiling [04:02.000]To the windows, to the walls [04:05.000]Against this sudden sinking feeling [04:08.000]That there's nothing there at all and still [04:13.000]We just persevere