Chords for David Nail - Fighter Series (David & Catherine Nail Story)

_ _ We have [D#m] Lawson and Lily-Kate and they just turned six months [G#] old and they're just absolutely [C#] amazing.
It's funny, she is just like me, [F#] looks just like me, acts just like me, and he is [D#m] his daddy to a T.
I can [B] remember when we first started talking about getting pregnant and [C#] she said,
well we've been trying for two years and it's like we never [F#] really had that sit down conversation where it was like,
okay [D#m] hey, it's March 1st, [B] _ 2010, we're going to start [C#] today.
And so time kind of gets away from [F#] you and the next thing you know, it [Bm] has been two years and then three years
and you wake up one day and suddenly you're in a doctor's office and you're like, is it [C#] really to this point yet?
[F#m] Have we really exhausted every [D#m] opportunity?
And I was embarrassed for the longest [B] time.
A lot of what we dealt with [F#] had to do with me.
And [F] as a man, you [D#] definitely don't want to hear that.
[C#] She obviously had [G#] dreams of being a mother and would always tell me that [C#] that's what she was born to do.
And so in whatever way I was able to contribute to [D#] not that happening was _ [G#] _ beyond [C#] frustrating.
Insult to injury, honestly, because it was right around the time that the [D#] depression was diagnosed.
And then, [G#] you talk about putting salt on the open wound, right?
It [C#] stung.
It did kind of start to feel like everything was kind of stacked against you. _ _ _
[D#] We had done a few other [B] procedures multiple times.
It was [C#] impossible not to kind of wonder, hey, [F#] is this just in the cards for us?
On my [D#] birthday was when I had to do my first [G#] shot in my stomach.
And oh, [C#] gosh, I was scared to death.
I think it's just an attitude.
And [F#] you know what?
Your eyes on the prize.
And that's what I kept telling [D#m] myself every single day.
You know, what's the end result?
Yes, [F#] this may hurt for now, but it's [C#] so worth it.
And I would do it again.
I would do [F#] it 10 times again to get what [C#] we have now. _
[D#m] _ _ [C#] We [B] always talked about implant to embryos.
[C#] They always made us aware that there was a good probability that they could both take.
[D#] And this would result in twins.
And [G#] those are difficult, and the pregnancy can [C#] be high risk.
And they would give you the whole shebang.
But we were very adamant.
[D#] I think both of our outlooks was, you know, [F#] it's been this difficult.
If we are so lucky [C#] to have two, [B] [C#] it may be the only two we ever [F#] get.
I tested about five [D#m] days before I was supposed to.
Just [B] had a gut feeling.
And so I thought, I'm just going to do [C#] this.
It's killing me.
I have to know.
I remember just [F#m] the longest two minutes of my life for that test [B] result to come up.
And by that point, pregnancy test [G] and I had a really bad relationship.
I mean, I've [F#] been known to throw them across the room and call them liars.
[C#] And if you're going through infertility, you can probably [D#] relate with me that you just kind [C#] of get so sick and [G#] tired of taking them and saying no.
Well, Ain't Too [C#] Proud to Beg came on.
And I was like, well, this is appropriate because I am literally begging on my knees for this [D#] pregnancy test to pop up yes.
And it popped up yes.
[G#] And I just [C#] laughed.
I cried.
I screamed.
My dogs were looking at me like, what is going on?
[D#] And so then I'm like, how am I going to keep this [B] from David?
[G#] He loves Michael Jordan [C#] shoes.
Collects all of them.
So he had bought a pair when we started the process.
_ And I went and dug those up [D#] and I put our pregnancy test on top of those little [B] baby [G#] Air Jordan shoes in a box.
[C#] And I had put them inside a Nike bag that he [F#] had bought, I guess, the week before.
And he came [D#m] home and he said, what's this Nike bag?
What did you get?
[G#] And so I was hurrying over to the camera to like press [C#] start to film it.
And he opens them.
He gets the [F#] box out.
And he's like, baby [D#m] shoes.
So he opens the box and he sees the pregnancy [G#] test.
And his first instinct is, [B] huh?
[C#] No way.
_ _ [F#] Pregnancy was amazing.
[C#] I loved it.
I [D#m] thought with two I'd for sure have [C#] double sickness.
_ [B] [G#] And I didn't.
It was wonderful.
[C#] I carried him full term for twins, so 37 weeks.
And then they sat me down this bench at the end of the [D#m] hallway.
And they wheeled her down there to prep her.
[F#] I had a pretty decent idea of what [C#] I was about to witness.
But I had, at the end of the day, no clue.
I can remember them counting [D#m] the needles and counting the [B] knives and the tools.
And then [C#] you don't really know when it starts, but it [F#] starts.
And then I can [D#m] remember her shaking.
_ _ [G#] And then you hear somebody [C#] cry.
_ _ [F#] In that moment, it changed [D#m] your life.
Then it gets real.
_ [B] Lawson was born first at 745 [C#] and came out guns a [F#]-blazin'.
I couldn't take my eyes off of [C#] him.
And I remember just saying, Lawson, [D#m] Lawson, trying to [C#] calm him down.
[B] And then she came out [G#] guns a [C#]-blazin' too.
It was such a powerful experience that [D#] you just [G#] couldn't imagine.
It's the beginning of [C#] a new journey, but it's the end of this tremendous struggle
that we had gone through for so [D#] long.
I wrote a song on the new record about [G#] them.
That was kind of the most _
[C#] _ important part for [B] me of the song,
was [C#] to let them know, [D#] _ hey, this [F#] wasn't just some [C#] Tuesday night.
[D#] We went out to dinner and [F#] came home, and nine months later you were here.
[G#] This was a lot of prayer.
This was a lot of [C#m] people praying, _ [F#] a lot of work, a lot of [D#m] frustration, [D#] anger, fights.
[B] You just want them to know that [C#] it wasn't easy,
but you go [F#] through it 15 times just to experience that [D#] moment again. _
_ [G#] _ _ [C#] I'm Katherine Nail.
And I'm David Nail.
And this is our fighter story.
I never knew I [F#] had a fight _ _
[D#m] _ I never knew I [B] had a fight _ _