Thanks

Verse 1

Gratitude’s a kind of rebel,

A quiet fire against the night—

Kindness rising up through anger,

Hope defying all our fright.

It digs beneath the weight of hatred,

Under greed and bitter stones,

Untwists the knots inside our hearts

And calls us back to coming home.

Pre-Chorus

No, it doesn’t end the sorrow,

Doesn’t make the pain untrue—

But it says the dark is not the whole

Of what we’re walking through.

Chorus

Gratitude gives us a new story,

A light that breaks the fear apart.

Every life is touched with glory—

Yours and mine, each beating heart.

We all share this sacred moment,

Given breath, given grace to be…

Gratitude gives us a new story,

And sets our heavy spirits free.

Verse 2

It doesn’t fix a broken world,

Or wipe injustice from the land,

But it tells us we are more than wounds,

And we can rise, hand in hand.

From the jailed and sick and forgotten,

To the ones living safe and warm—

Every soul is still a miracle,

Every life survives the storm.

Pre-Chorus

Pain remains, but not the ending,

Despair ain’t got the final say—

Gratitude keeps gently bending

All the shadows toward the day.

Chorus

Gratitude gives us a new story,

A light that breaks the fear apart.

Every life is touched with glory—

Yours and mine, each beating heart.

We all share this sacred moment,

Given breath, given grace to be…

Gratitude gives us a new story,

And sets our heavy spirits free.

Bridge

Come sit with me at the long, wide table—

There’s room enough for every soul.

We’ll feast, we’ll dance beneath the lamplights,

Find the ways that we are whole.

In the sharing, in the laughter,

In the tears that we have cried—

Gratitude becomes a lantern

Burning warm on every side.

Final Chorus

Gratitude gives us a new story,

A world where we belong as one.

Where abundance fills the open doorways,

And the darkest days are done.

We are graced in every moment—

Bound in love, in dignity…

Gratitude gives us a new story,

And it sets our spirits free.