Wanna thank you, Wanna thank you
Freedom in stride, love, peace of mind
We just wanna give Gratitude
Got plenty love we wanna give to you
With good music and we’re tryin’ to say
That the Good Lord’s gonna make a way
Open up your heart, let your body find,
Freedom in your stride, love, peace of mind
One more time and we got to say
That the Good Lord gonna make a way.
thank you
for letting me stay here
thank you for taking me in
thank you
for the beer and the food
thank you
for loaning me bus fare
thank you for showing me around
that was a very kind thing to do
thank you
for the use of the clean towel
thank you for half of your bed
we can sleep here like brother and sister,
you said
but you changed the rules
in an hour or two
and I don’t know what you
and your sisters do
but please don’t
please stop
this is not my obligation
what does my body have to do
with my gratitude?
look at you
little white lying
for the purpose of justifying
what you’re trying to do
I know that you feel my resistance
I know that you heard what I said
otherwise you wouldn’t need the excuse
thank you
for letting me stay here
thank you for taking me in
I don’t know where else
I would have turned
but I don’t come and go
like a pop song
that you can play incessantly
and then foget when it’s gone
you can’t write me off
and you don’t turn me on
so don’t change the rules
in an hour or two
I don’t know what you and your
sisters do
but please don’t
please stop
this is not my obligation
what does my body have to do
with my gratitude?
Good Times Gone But You Missed Them What’s Gone Wrong In
Your System Things They Bounce Just Like A Spaulding What’d
You Think Did You Miss Your Calling It’s So Free This Kind Of Feeling
It’s Like Life It’s So Appealing When You’ve Got So Much To Say
It’s Called Gratitude
Good Times Gone But You Feed It Hate’s Grown Strong
You Feel You Need It Just One Thing Do You Know What You Think
That The World Owes You What’s Gonna Set You Free Look Inside
And You’ll See When You’ve Got So Much To Say It’s Called Gratitude
Maurice white, verdine white & larry dunn
Wanna thank you, wanna thank you
Freedom in stride, love, peace of mind
We just wanna give gratitude
Got plenty love we wanna give to you
With good music and we’re tryin’ to say
That the good lord’s gonna make a way
Open up your heart, let your body find,
Freedom in your stride, love, peace of mind
One more time and we got to say
That the good lord gonna make a way.
Send some rain, would You send some rain?
‘Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink again
And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade
Would You send a cloud, thunder long and loud?
Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down
Surely You can see that we are thirsty and afraid
But maybe not, not today
Maybe You’ll provide in other ways
And if that’s the case …
We’ll give thanks to You with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to thirst for You
How to bless the very sun that warms our face
If You never send us rain
Daily bread, give us daily bread
Bless our bodies, keep our children fed
Fill our cups, then fill them up again tonight
Wrap us up and warm us through
Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs
Let us slumber safe from danger’s view this time
Or maybe not, not today
Maybe You’ll provide in other ways
And if that’s the case …
We’ll give thanks to You with gratitude
A lesson learned to hunger after You
That a starry sky offers a better view
If no roof is overhead
And if we never taste that bread
Oh, the differences that often are between
Everything we want and what we really need
So grant us peace, Jesus, grant us peace
Move our hearts to hear a single beat
Between alibis and enemies tonight
Or maybe not, not today
Peace might be another world away
And if that’s the case …
We’ll give thanks to You with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to trust in You
That we are blessd beyond what we could ever dream
In abundance or in need
And if You never grant us peace …
But, Jesus, would You please …
Life’s been so good to me
Has it been good to you
Has it been everything
That you expected it to be
Was it as good for you
As it was good for me
And was it everything
That it was all set up to be
(now is that gratitude)
Now is that gratitude
Or is it really love
Some kind of reality
That fits just like a glove
Now is that gratitude
For everything i’ve done
Or is it something else
That’s got me on the run
In the middle of a big tornado
On the tip of everyone’s tongue
In the belly of a giant whale
All the girls just wanna have fun
In the look of a frightened neighbor
In a big warm bed at night
In a broken elevator
In the teeth of a dog that bites
In the middle of a revolution
In the look of a child’s face
In the silence of the dinner table
In the stillness of disgrace
(i used to eat little girls i knew
For breakfast
I used to fly high up in the sky
I used to chew up rocks and
Spit out gravel
I had a heart as cold as ice)
But when i think of you
And what you’ve done to me
You took away my hope
You took away my fantasy
I once had lots of pride
The world was in my hands
I lived way at the top
Of castles made of sand
Ooh . . .
I dream of you sometimes
Ooh . . .
I dream of you sometimes
In the middle of a big tornado . . .
Life’s been so good to me . . .
Thankful for relaxation, complication, hibernation and irrational
Seclusion, confusion, all of my impurity and insecurity
Cause I know it’s God just perfecting me
That’s why
Today I take life as it comes
