Persevere (MTV Unplugged Live In Melbourne)

I never got to kiss your head, ah, Emme And the call came the week I got divorced I thought I had a real understanding then of loss But I didn��t know a thing ��til you were gone And I��m tired of trying to find some sort of meaningful thing In making sense of such unspeakable loss But as I��m staring at your folks, the sweetest people I know I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong Just holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on Chorus 'Cause nothing tuned me in to absurdity as fast As a gravestone with the name of a baby that has passed I used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive And without fear You got to persevere Verse 2 I couldn��t count the times I��ve ragged on heaven As an opiate invented by the weak It��s an argument I hate 'cause I��m content to love the fates But it comes up a lot with Emme��s dad and me So I��m shotgun in the car and we��re just shooting the shit And predictably, the talking turns to God So I throw him forty lines how I don��t think he exists And he just smiles and takes a dignified pause Says, It��s okay to feel unbelievably lost Chorus But God is full of grace and his faithfulness is vast There is safety in the moments when the shit has hit the fan Not some vindictive motherfucker, nor is he shitty at his job What words to hear And I��m a mess by now 'Cause nothing tuned me in to my failure as fast As grieving for a friend with more belief than I possessed It��s not some disembodied heaven, he assured me Then he laughs and says through tears You got to persevere Persevere Persevere Persevere Instrumental break Outro We threw a party up in here, but God, it was bittersweet I live hard 'cause I am scared that I won��t mean anything So now I��m praying to the ceiling, to the windows, to the walls Against this sudden sinking feeling that there��s nothing there at all And still We just persevere