Joseph Arthur – Thank You Is My Mantra (Guitar)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am
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