You In Everything

C I prayed the day you passed, but the heavens didn't listen Am7 G So we held you 'til your dark skin dulled to fair C Went out to smoke a dart, finally get some time alone Am7 G But just broke down and held my wife beneath the stairs C 'Cause I saw our little life ascending from the street Am7 G And flung from overpass to overpass, collapsing in a heap C F But to cradle you the last days was an honour C And a miserable feat Am G C I still need you in everything Am G C I will need you in everything C The places you have walked, I consider holy ground Am7 And I will love the things you love G Despite my prior thoughts about C F C And I'll think of you each day as if to nourish me from inside out C Now I speak to you in tongues, and seek for you in pain Am7 G And long for echoes in the silence born of islands and of rain C F Every hymn and all the sounds that bind the many of us C Fiercely to the sea Am G C I will hear you in everything Am G C I will hear you in everything C I prayed for you in song and kneaded through your veins Am7 And chased the morsels of your voice G And gave you shots to ease the pain C F When you asked us for some wine, we bought the best stuff C And we laughed and watched you drink C Now I smell you in the air and I pause to breathe you in Am7 G And I have torn apart your closet and devoured the scent within C You ascend in every skyline F C All the water and the streets of Grey Lynn Am G C I will feel you in everything Am G C I will feel you in everything C How do I face the world? Or raise a fuckin' kid? Am7 G Or see beauty in the Earth and all its majesty replete C When I've spent the better part of my twenties F C Doing self-indulgent bullshit on repeat? C So if there's something of you here in the ever-changing light Am7 G Holding close to my unsteady heart and bonding me to life C F May your spirit never leave me in the boredom C And the utterly sublime Am G C 'Cause I will look for you every time Am G C I will look for you every time C It'll torture me at first, then it'll hurt a little less Am7 G And I will pour through every piece of you 'til nothing new is left C Just your eyes in my reflection F C And the heavy thing now beating in my chest C We held you in your bed, we washed you in your sheets Am7 G And sang you hymnals from the islands 'til you drifted off to sleep C F Then I kissed the hands that raised me for the last time C And stared out into the street Am G C I will see you in everything Am G C I will see you in everything Am G C I will see you in everything Am G C I will see you in everything