Danny Gokey – New Music

Danny Gokey – “My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me”——————————— NEW SINGLE
Written by: Marv Green & Kent Blazy

Blowing out the candles on another birthday cake
Old enough to look back and laugh at my mistakes
Young enough to look at the future and like what I see
My best days are ahead of me

Life hasn’t always been a party
But mostly it’s been good
There’s only one or two things
That I’d change if I could
I don’t get lost in the past
Or get stuck in some sad memory, yeah
My best days are ahead of me

Chorus:
Age ain’t nothing but a number
Sometimes I have to wonder what does it really mean
Hey, I’m still putting it together
I keep getting better, if I keep getting better
I can be whatever I wanna be
My best days are ahead of me

I’ve got sunsets to witness
Dreams to dance with
Beaches to walk on
And lovers to kiss
There’s a whole lot of world out there
That I can’t wait to see
My best days are ahead of me

My best days… are ahead of me

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Danny Gokey – “It’s Only”
Written by: Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum) & Tom Douglas

It’s been 18 months and 14 Days
Bobby can’t get him a job
Repo man’s gonna take his van I hear
Bobby’s giving up on God
He needs a hand up and not a hand out
But hey, everybody’s gotta suffer
Don’t worry, don’t worry
It’s only my brother

Where is that poverty line
I’ve never really seen it
Look around I’m doing fine
I’m not really sure I believe it
On the other side of town schools are falling down
But me I’m riding in style
Don’t worry, don’t worry
It’s only a child

There’s a homeless woman with a shopping cart
Living on the street
Lord knows she can’t come in here where the pretty people meet
We’re all dressed in our Sunday best
And she smiles when she sees us
Don’t worry
It’s only Jesus

There’s a face in the mirror
A man that I can be
Lord, won’t you open my eyes
Won’t you help me see
A hungry child needs more than a piece of bread
Brother needs a job to get ahead
And the homeless need a place to lay their head
And as much as I’ve been giving
I could never give enough
Don’t worry
It’s only love

It’s only love, it’s only love
We’re gonna make it together
Walking hand in hand
Falling down to our knees
It’s where we’ll make our stand
You can never give it all away
You can never give enough
Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry,
It’s only love

When you’re lonely, cold and empty
Only one thing to fill you up
And it’s only, and it’s only, and it’s only
It’s only love

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Danny Gokey – “Tiny Life”
Written by: Jeffrey Steele and Marv Green

Looking down out of this little round window
On silver wings at 20,000 feet
With lakes and streams and fields of green
I tend to think the most peculiar things

Ribbons of highways, side roads and byways
People going all ways, always in a hurry
Gotta get there, but just where?
From up here, 
I’m not sure
Where it’s all going or what it all means

But sometimes I think, it’s just a simple thing
I close my eyes and I realize all I really need
Is love I have, and the love I have to give
Anything else there is – is insignificant
In this tiny life

Wheels hit the runways, Mondays run into Mondays
And some days are better than some days
Can’t see the sky, skyscrapers too high
Thirty second daydream at another red light
I’m back in my hometown of roads that we rode down
Those sights and sounds are just yesterday’s now
There’s deadlines and stress lines and too much on my mind
I’m getting it all, but what’s it all for?

Sometimes I think, it’s just a simple thing
I close my eyes and I realize all I really need
Is love I have, and the love I have to give
‘
Cause anything else there is – is insignificant
In this tiny life

The love we make, the dreams we share
The friends we have in our short time here
It’s knowing God’s grace, the touch of a hand
Holding a baby, calling mom and dad
It’s making the most of the moments we have
And getting to live long enough to look back
On the years, the sweet tears of joy and laughter
It’s all that really matters

Sometimes I think, it’s just a simple thing
I close my eyes and I realize all I really need
Is love I have, and the love I have to give
Anything else there is – is insignificant
It doesn’t matter, in this tiny life

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Danny Gokey – “I Still Believe”
Written by: Kara DioGuardi, Michael Busbee and Barry Dean

I’ve been looking for a light
At the end of this tunnel
I’ve been searching for a sign
To lead me home

Too many endless nights
Of sorrow
But on the other side of this
I know that my heart will live

I never saw a man that walked on the water
I never met a man that walked on the water
But I still believe

I don’t really know what tomorrow will bring
But I’m open to all possibilities
‘Cause I still believe

And the more I live my life
The lesser I question
All the things I just can’t see
Right in front of my eyes
So I take that leap of faith
And learn a few lessons
Time showed me that
What you give is what you get

I never saw a man that walked on the water
I never met a man that walked on the water
But I still believe

I don’t know the answer to my prayer
But I keep kneeling down like somebody is there
‘Cause I still believe

(Now, listen)
Well, I guess I could give up
‘Cause there are days I wanna run away
From everything
But what good would that do for me

‘Cause I, I, I still believe

I never saw a man that walked on the water
I never met a man that walked on the water
But I still believe

I never saw a man that walked on the water
I never met a man that walked on the water
But I still believe

I don’t really know what tomorrow will bring
But I’m open to all possibilities
‘Cause I still believe

I never saw a man, never saw a man, never saw a man,
Who walked on the water
I never saw a man, never saw a man, never saw a man,
But I, but I, but I believe
But I, but I, but I believe
But I, but I, but I believe

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Danny Gokey – “Be Somebody”
Written by: ?

Joker Johnny was a lie teller
‘Cause he thought somebody might like him better
So he built it up, built it up till it all fell down
But he never thought the bitter truth was gonna find him out
He did it all to impress someone else
But all he had to do was stop and be himself

Now everybody wants to be somebody
Yes, it’s true
No tellin’ what some people will do, oh
Nobody wants to be a nobody
‘Cause it’s a far more bitter fate
To go through this life
Carrying the weight

When they shoot somebody
For the clothes they wear
And they’ll advertise it like it’s ordinary
They got territories so they stand their ground
What they really know is what comes around
It comes right back around

What they really wanted
Is to be accepted
And find out in the end
That the streets are self-correcting

Everybody wants to be somebody
Yes, it’s true
No tellin’ what some people will do, oh
Nobody wants to be a nobody
‘Cause it’s a far more bitter fate
To go through this life
Carrying the weight

Far more worse than dying
Is living with a soul
That’s laden with the consequence
Of all the happiness you stole
Sometimes a guilty conscience and carrying the weight
Is harder than a bullet to the brain
Yeah, yeah, yeah
C’mon oh, oh, oh, oh

Everybody wants to be somebody
Yes it’s true
No tellin’ what some people will do, oh
Nobody wants to be a nobody
‘Cause it’s a far more bitter fate
Yes, it is, yes, it is

Everybody wants to be somebody
Yes it’s true
No tellin’ what some people will do
Nobody wants to be a nobody
‘Cause it’s a far more bitter fate
To go through this life carrying

Never carrying the weight
Never carrying the weight
You gotta let it down, let it go
Listen to me as I say
Never carrying that weight
Never carrying that weight
You gotta let it go
Let it down

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Danny Gokey – “I Will Not Say Goodbye”
Written by: ?

Sometimes your world just ends
It changes everything you’ve been
And all that’s left to be
Is empty, broken, lonely, hoping

I’m supposed to be strong
I’m supposed to find a way to carry on
And I don’t wanna feel better
And I don’t wanna not remember,
I will always see your face
In the shadows of this haunted place
I will laugh, I will cry, shake my fist at the sky
But I will not say goodbye

They keep saying time will heal
But the pain just gets more real
The sun comes up each day
Finds me waiting, fading, hating, praying,

If I can keep on holding on
Maybe I can keep my heart from knowing that you’re gone
And I don’t wanna feel better
I don’t wanna not remember
I will always see your face
In the shadows of this haunted place
I will laugh, I will cry, shake my fist at the sky
But I will not say goodbye

I will curse, I will pray, I will re-live everyday
I will show through the blame
I’ll shout out your name
I will laugh, I will cry, shake my fist at the sky
But I will not say
Will not say goodbye
I will not say goodbye
I will not say…

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Danny Gokey – “Life On Ya”
Written by: ?

Sunday morning, all dressed for church
Took a muddy road shortcut
Showed up all covered in dirt
Daddy took one look
About to blow his top
I remember grandma saying, “It’ll come out in the wash.”

Gotta get a little life on ya!
Ain’t always pretty,
Gonna get a little dirty

Gotta get a little life on ya!
On ya! On ya!
Gotta get a little life on ya!

About five years later
I can’t remember her name
I never saw it coming
But man, I remember my first heartbreak
Grandma smiling
With that beautiful wrinkled face
Said, “You ain’t seen nothing yet,
That girl was just a taste”

Gotta get a little life on ya!
Ain’t always pretty,
Gonna get a little dirty

Gotta get a little life on ya!
On ya! On ya!
Gotta get a little life on ya!
Yeah

Girl, do you remember?
When we first met
Life hadn’t had a chance
to throw all it had at us yet
And that was ten years later
And you can do the math
But it all adds up to everything
That grandma said way back

Gotta get a little life on ya!
Gotta get a little life on ya!
Gotta go a little further
Gotta get a little deeper
It gets a little sweeter
When you get a little on ya!

Gotta get a little life on ya!
Ain’t always pretty,
Gonna get a little dirty

Gotta get a little life on ya!
On ya! On ya!
On ya!
Yeah, yeah

Gotta get a little life on ya!
Little life on ya, yeah

You got to live a little
Breathe harder
Love stronger, yeah

You got to live harder
Love stronger, yeah

* Not official lyrics. Thank you to everyone who helped!