Thankful (feat. Michael McDonald)

Someone's standing in a welfare line

Or off the freeway with a hungry sign

Someone's stressing bout to lose their mind

I gotta be thankful, thankful

Someone just became a single mother

Someone just lost a sister or brother

Its so important that we love each other

And be

Thankful, thankful

Ive gotta take the time to say, that I'm

Thankful, thankful

For every single breath that I take

Ive gotta be thankful, thankful

Someones sitting in a prison cell

Wasting away in their own personal hell

Everybody's got their own story to tell

I've gotta be thankful, thankful

Man, I used to think I didn't have a lot

Now I realize just how much Ive got

Now every day I'm gonna take the time and stop to be

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Any one of these so easily could have been me

But if it had not been for grace and mercy who knows where Id be

Ive been riding on this roller coaster ride

Round and round Ive seen the up and downside

And Im here to tell you that the secret of life is being

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