TAB : Thank You Is My Mantra

Am

Gratitude the antidote

Am

The world that’s built on fear

C

The evil world we live in

C

Wants our soul to disappear

F

But gratitude’s salvation

F

A never ending light

Dm

That transcends all the darkness

Dm

Trying to hold us to the night

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Am

Thoughts say what is missing

Am

Thank you says what’s here

C

Thoughts keep us unconscious

C

Thank you makes it clear

F

Back into the moment

F

The vast eternal now

Dm

Where God is always with us and

Dm

Holy like a cow

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Am

Like a sunrise or a child

Am

Or a garden full of roses

C

The mind misses the magic

C

And considers all the poses

F

Why are thoughts against us

F

Principalities are there

Dm

Whispering indifference

Dm

On foundations of despair

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Am

So Thank you is my mantra, mantra

C

Naww nawww naww maww naww, naww naww

F Dm

Thank you is my mantra, mantra-aaa

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Am

Who set up this funhouse

Am

This journey for our soul

C

Where most never make it

C

And lose all their control

F

How do we get back

F

Any sovereignty

Dm

From the lies of demons

Dm

That we pretend to be

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Am

Thank you is a pass

Am

To a place outside of hell

C

Gratitude and presence

C

Will lift us where we fell

F

But we have to make a practice

F

To come back into now

Dm

In the garden of our gratitude

Dm

And push that ancient plow

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Am

I don’t know the reason

Am

We are in a holy war

C

Or how we ever come back

C

To who we were before

F

Did it start in Eden

F

With an apple and a snake

Dm

Since then have we been fallen

Dm

With this battle as our fate

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Am

So Thank you is my mantra, mantra

C

Naww nawww naww maww naww, naww naww

F Dm

Thank you is my mantra, mantra-aaa



Dm Am

The world will lie to us

Am C

And so will our mind

F Dm

So will our miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind



Am

Whatever is the reason

Am

This is where we are

C

The light and the darkness

C

All aiming for our heart

F

The light wants us present

F

In the clutch of gratitude

Dm

The darkness wants us scattered

Dm

With an evil attitude

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Am

And we look at the thinking

Am

That justifies the course

C

We see it’s thought itself

C

That brings on the divorce

F

From the Holy Spirit

F

From revelations bloom

Dm

From the love of God

Dm

To the darkness of the tomb



Am

Voices of old demons

Am

We identify as us

C

And then we follow lies

C

The wrong voices that we trust

F

Take us to destruction

F

Take us to despair

Dm

When the gift of God himself

Dm

Has always just been here



Am

So Thank you is my mantra, mantra

C

Naww nawww naww maww naww, naww naww

F Dm

Thank you is my mantra, mantra-aaa





Dm Am

The world will lie to us

Am C

And so will our mind

F Dm

So will our miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind

Dm Am

The world will lie to us

Am C

And so will our mind

F Dm

So will our miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind

Am Am

Thank you is my mantra, mantra