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
 'Coz 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
 I couldn't count the times
 I've ragged on heaven
 As an opiate invented by the weak
 It's an argument I hate
 'Coz 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 ok to feel unbelievably lost"
 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
 'Coz 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 laughed
 And says through tears
 You got to persevere
 Persevere
 Persevere
 Persevere
 We threw a party up in here
 But god it was bittersweet
 I live hard 'coz 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