Thankful

Someone standing in the welfare line

Or off the freeway with a hungry sign

Someone stressing 'bout to lose their mind

I gotta be thankful, thankful

Someone just became a single mother (could be your daughter)

Someone just lost a sister or brother (yes, they did)

It's so important that we love each other

And be thankful, thankful

I've gotta take the time to say

That I'm thankful, thankful

For every single breath that I take

I've gotta be thankful, thankful

Someone sitting in a prison cell (well)

Wasting away in personal hell (God have mercy, yeah)

Everybody got their own story to tell

I've got to be thankful, (I'm so very) thankful

Man, I used to think I didn't have a lot (and what about now?)

Now I realize just how much I got (and you bless me, Lord)

Now every day I'm gonna take the time

And start to be thankful (thankful), thankful

Got to take the time to say

That I wanna be thankful, thankful

For every little breath that I take

Oh, I-I've got to be thankful, (I've got to be) thankful

Any one of these so easily could have been me

And if it had not been for grace and mercy

Who knows where I'd be, yeah, ooh-ooh

I've been riding on this roller coaster ride

Round and round I've seen the up and downside

And I'm here to tell you that the secret of life

Is being thankful, thankful

I've gotta take the time to say

I'm so thankful, thankful

For every little breath that I take

Lord, you know I'm thankful, thankful

Thankful, thankful

Thankful, thankful

Thankful, thankful

For every little breath I take (every breath I take)

I will be thankful, thankful

Every thing you've done

(You've done for my life) thankful, thankful

I didn't come to ask for anything, Lord

I just wanna say thankful (Lord, I wanna be) thankful

Thankful, grateful, thankful

(Be thankful, children)

Thankful, thankful

Thankful