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Artist: Kirk Franklin
Canonical path: /kirk-franklin/could-ve-been
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Could've Been
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Could've Been
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It could've been me
With no clothes, no shoes and no food to eat
It could've been me
Without Your love Lord tell me where would I be
It could've been
Me in the cold with, everything gone
No house, no job, outside all alone
Sitting trying to figure out, where I went wrong
Can somebody help me, tell me what do I do
Can't feed my kids need money for the rent
Bills after bills but everything's spent
The enemy telling me you, might as well quit and
With tears in my eyes crying, Lord please get me through
See that's the reason
I just can't thank You enough
No matter how hard I try, Jesus I realize
It could've been me
With no clothes, no shoes and no food to eat
It could've been me
Without Your love Lord tell me where would I be
It could've been
Me in the cold with, everything gone
No house, no job, outside all alone
Sitting trying to figure out, where I went wrong
Can somebody help me, tell me what do I do
Can't feed my kids need money for the rent
Bills after bills but everything's spent
The enemy telling me you, might as well quit and
With tears in my eyes crying, Lord please get me through
See it's easy to complain bout material things
When you don't have to worry 'bout whatever life brings
But somebody here tonight don't know what they gonna eat
So I gotta be careful 'cause it could've been me
See that's the reason
I just can't thank You enough
No matter how hard I try, Jesus I realize
(2x)
It could've been me
With no clothes, no shoes and no food to eat
It could've been me
Without Your love Lord tell me where would I be
It could've been
Thank you
Thank you
I thank you it could've been me
I thank you it could've been me
You didn't have to do it no
You didn't have to do it no
You didn't have to do it no thank you
You didn't have to do it no thank you
Oh oh
Too good to stop now father
I wanna give you thanks some more
All the things I've been through now
I see I'm better than I was before
When I think about all you've done
And how you've opened up every door
I can't help but say thank you
And if you wanna help me get up on the floor
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