D                                B7
Aly, what is incessantly on your mind?
                G
Well when I was 5, my mama told me that
A                       D
One day we're all gonna die
       G                   A                     D
Of all places, it was in a fast food joint at night
     G                  F#m
That left me with a bad taste in my mouth
D                          G  A        D
And a knack for existential   spinning out

[Verse 2]
D
"How'd that come to pass?" You may ask
                             B7
As the full moon appeared to leer and loom
     G                 A           D
Well on the stage of a church in a kiddie pool
           G        A     D
She and my dad were born again
G                 F#m      D              B7           G      A     D
I was an audience member beside my little sister and I didn't understand
    B7
And they were my age then, the age that I am

[Chorus]
     G       A             D
So I guess I get it better now
        G                  A              D
Oh, the pangs of fear, the fear of being alone
    G    A        D
Of dying young or growing old
           G                 A       D
Before realizing the purpose of your soul

[Verse 3]
D
It was with a milkshake in her hand that
                                B7
My mama mentioned the second coming
           G                   A
That as believers, we would be lifted to a
D
Brilliant kingdom in the sky
    G                   A
And I couldn't fathom a place of light
D
High above the desert night
    G                 F#m              D         B7
But as an impassioned follower of my beautiful mother
G          A     D
 I put all of my faith in her

[Chorus]
G             A                 D
You and I, we both swing in and out of fear for the future
   G                 A                       D
We lean into the sky, we're looking for that answer
G             A                 D
You and I, we both swing in and out of fear for the future
   G                 A                      D
We lean into the sky, we're looking for the answers
             G             A               D
I can see a romance in the reaching, and a tenderness in believing
   G                 A                      D
We lean into the sky, we're looking for the answers

[End]
    B7
But Mama, you didn't inspire a heavenly desire
        G               A             D
Just an urge to hold my life a little tighter
        G               A             D
Just an urge to hold my life a little tighter
        G               A             D
Just an urge to hold my life a little tighter