Don’t You Want To Thank Someone

[Verse 1: Andrew Peterson]
Can't you feel it in your bones
Something isn't right here
Something that you've always known
But you don't know why

[Verse 2: Andrew Peterson]
'Cause every time the sun goes down
We face another night here
Waiting for the world to spin around
Just to survive

[Chorus 1: Andrew Peterson]
But when you see the morning sun
Burning through a silver mist
Don't you want to thank someone?
Don't you want to thank someone for this?

[Verse 3: Andrew Peterson]
Well have you ever wonder why
In spite of all that's wrong here
There's still so much that goes so right
And beauty abounds?

[Verse 4: Andrew Peterson]
'Cause sometimes when you walk outside
The air is full of song here
The thunder rolls and the baby sighs
And the rain comes down

[Chorus 2: Andrew Peterson]
And when you see the spring has come
And it warms you like a mother's kiss
Oh don't you want to thank someone?
Don't you want to thank someone for this?
To thank someone for this?
Oh don't you want to thank someone?
Don't you want to thank someone for this?

[Verse 5: Andrew Peterson]
I used to be a little boy
As golden as a sunrise
Breaking over Illinois
When the corn was tall

[Verse 6: Andrew Peterson]
Yeah, but every little boy grows up
And he's haunted by the heart that died
Longing for the world that was
Before the Fall

[Chorus 3: Andrew Peterson]
Oh, but then forgiveness comes
It's a grace that I cannot resist
And I just want to thank someone
I just want to thank someone for this

[Verse 7: Andrew Peterson]
Now I can see the world is charged
It's glimmering with promises
Written in a script of stars
And dripping from prophets' lips
Oh but still, my thirst is never slaked
I am hounded by a restlessness
I am eaten by this endless ache
But still I will give thanks for this

[Verse 8: Andrew Peterson]
'Cause I can see it in the seas of wheat
Oh, I can feel it when the horses run
It's howling in the snowy peaks
And it's blazing in the midnight sun
Oh, just behind a veil of wind
A million angels waiting in the wings
A swirling storm of cherubim
Making ready for the Reckoning

[Bridge: Andrew Peterson]
Oh, how long, how long?
Oh, sing on, sing on

[Verse 9: Andrew Peterson]
And when the world is new again
And the children of the King
Are ancient in their youth again
Well maybe it's a better thing
A better thing

[Verse 10: Andrew Peterson]
To be more than merely innocent
Oh, but to be broken then redeemed by love
Well maybe this old world is bent
But it's waking up
And I'm waking up

[Chorus 4: Andrew Peterson]
'Cause I can hear the voice of one
Crying in the wilderness
"Make ready for the kingdom come"
Don't you want to thank someone for this?
To thank someone for this?

[Bridge: Andrew Peterson]
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallalujah, hallelujah

[Outro: Jill Philips]
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