Persevere chords by Gang Of Youths

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

The chords sound best if you get the hammer-on's going on the C, A minorAm and FF chords in the verse
(Hammer-on/pull-off on the middle note in each chord)

Verse 1:
 C majorC       G+G  G7G7 A minorAm     FF
I never got to kiss your head, ah, Emme
    C majorC       G+G      FF
And the call came the week I got divorced
 C majorC        G+G     A minorAm        FF
I thought I had a real understanding then of loss
   C majorC       G+G          FF
But I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone
    C majorC         G+G         A minorAm     FF
And I'm tired of trying to find some sort of meaningful thing
     C majorC       G+G      FF
In making sense of such unspeakable loss
      C majorC        G+G          A minorAm    FF
But as I'm staring at your folks, the sweetest people I know
    C majorC         G+G    FF
I get a glimpse of what it is to be strong
       C majorC        G+G         FF
Just holding hands and sobbing with sunglasses on

Chorus:
FF            C majorC    FF     C majorC
'Cause nothing tuned me in to absurdity as fast
   FF          C majorC     A minorAm      G+G
As a gravestone with the name of a baby that has passed
     FF    C majorC           A minorAm    G+G
I used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive
      FF    G+G
And without fear

You got to persevere


Instrumental:
C majorC G+G G7G7 A minorAm FF
C majorC G+G FF
(x2)


Verse 2:
 C majorC         G+G   G7G7  A minorAm    FF
I couldn't count the times I've ragged on heaven
   C majorC   G+G        FF
As an opiate invented by the weak
    C majorC     G+G        FF          C majorC
It's an argument I hate 'cause I'm content to love the fates
    C majorC          G+G       FF
But it comes up a lot with Emme's dad and me
   C majorC        G+G         A minorAm      FF
So I'm shotgun in the car and we're just shooting the shit
  C majorC        G+G        FF
And predictably, the talking turns to God
   C majorC     G+G            A minorAm    FF
So I throw him forty lines how I don't think he exists
      C majorC         G+G     FF
And he just smiles and takes a dignified pause
       C majorC      G+G      FF
Says, "It's okay to feel unbelievably lost"

Chorus:
  FF       C majorC       FF        C majorC
But God is full of grace and his faithfulness is vast
     FF       C majorC        A minorAm        G+G
There is safety in the moments when the shit has hit the fan
     FF     C majorC          A minorAm        G+G
Not some vindictive motherfucker, nor is he shitty at his job
       FF   G+G
What words to hear

And I'm a mess by now
     FF       C majorC    FF     C majorC
'Cause nothing tuned me in to my failure as fast
  FF       C majorC        A minorAm      G+G
As grieving for a friend with more belief than I possessed
        FF      C majorC      A minorAm
"It's not some disembodied heaven," he assured me
    G+G            FF    G+G
Then he laughs and says through tears
      FF  C majorC    A minorAm G+G
"You got to persevere"
FF  C majorC   A minorAm G+G
Persevere
FF  C majorC   A minorAm G+G
Persevere
FF  C majorC   A minorAm G+G
Persevere


Instrumental break:
FF C majorC A minorAm G+G


Solo: (played over top of break and outro)

e|-3-5-------------------|
BB|-----5-3-5---3---------|
G+G|-----------5---4-2-0---| x8
D MajorD|-----------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------------|
E MajorE|-----------------------|


Outro:
      FF      C majorC     A minorAm        G+G
We threw a party up in here, but God, it was bittersweet
    FF        C majorC       A minorAm     G+G
I live hard 'cause I am scared that I won't mean anything
      FF       C majorC        A minorAm       G+G
So now I'm praying to the ceiling, to the windows, to the walls
       FF       C majorC          A minorAm        G+G
Against this sudden sinking feeling that there's nothing there at all

And still we just persevere


Outro:
FF C majorC A minorAm G+G
(repeat to fade)