B              D#m
    I smile to trick, the fear inside me
B                      D#m
I smile to seem, like I’m improving
B                        D#m
But the brave grin, does not go in
B                        D#m
A surface layer, painted on the skin
G#m               F#
Of a body that is facing uncertainty

[Verse 2]
C# D#m         F#               B
   Yesterday I chased a dream
C#         D#m        F#             B
Now I just want to be able to sleep
C#          D#m            F#        B
   Suddenly riddled with incapability
C#        D#m     F#
Funny how illness changes everything

[Verse 3]
B            D#m
   Never rea-lly, believed in believing
B               D#m
Until I had, to believe I would get better
B                   D#m
And that was all, I had, no knowledge or progress
B             D#m
   Just hope, wafer thin hope

[Verse 4]
C#        D#m         F#    B
    Clung onto with a fist
C#       D#m        F#         B
    Must try not to damage it
C#    D#m  F#         B
    I must - believe
    C#     D#m    F#
And even - if I - don’t get better

[Bridge]
B                           D#m        F#
  Thanks for sitting with me - while I cried
B                                  D#m             F#
Thanks for easing the hours, when I was too weak to stand
B                                D#m         F#             B
Thanks for all the little detours - where we wandered off together
          B           D#m                    F#
And found things more important than what we want

D#m                       B
Those are truly treasured moments
D#m                    B
     And believe me, I know
D#m                         B
     That it’s hard to have hope
D#m                                       B
     But I will try not to die until I am dead

[Interlude]
B B B
C# G#m D#m

[Outro]
B                                     C#    G#m   D#m
   I will try, not to die, until I am dead
  B                                C#              G#m   D#m
I may be aching and exhausted, but life’s not over yet
      B                                 C#            G#m
So it doesn’t hurt to hope, and it will never hurt to try
D#m            B
Try not to die until you’re dead